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Smolentseva, Anna
- Research Fellow
- Moscow State University
- Center for Sociological Studies
- Russia
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| Anna Smolentseva is a Research Fellow
at the Center for Sociological Studies, Moscow State
University, Russia. Her research interests include
globalization and internationalization in higher
education, the transformation of the academic profession,
doctoral education, higher education and the labor
market, the sociology of education. She was a recipient
of a National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral
Fellowship and worked as a research analyst in a
number of research projects on higher education.
Anna Smolentseva is the author of about thirty articles
appearing in Higher Education, International Higher
Education, Russian Education and Society, and a
number of Russian scholarly journals and books.
Selected Publications
- Smolentseva A. Higher Education in Russia.
In: James J.F.Forest & Philip G.Altbach
(eds.). International Handbook of Higher Education.
Kluwer. (forthcoming)
- Smolentseva A. (2003). Challenges to the Russian
Academic Profession. Higher Education. 45
(4), 391-424.
- Smolentseva A. (2005). Free Higher Education
in Russia? International Higher Education,
40, 22-23.
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| Global Challenge and Higher Education
in Transition Countries: The Perspectives of the
Academic Profession in Russia
Russian higher education, like that of many Central/Eastern
European countries and former USSR republics,
is trapped between the different challenges facing
the knowledge society and the industrialized society.
The crisis associated with the collapse of the
Soviet Union, a need to build new society and
the demands of economics, globalization and internationalization
- Russian higher education has to face multiple
issues once. In this context, the Russian academic
profession has inevitably experienced change.
This project focuses on the transformation of
the Russian academic profession and its diversification/differentiation
in terms of changing working conditions and patterns
of academic work. The research objectives involve
a study of patterns of employment; examination
of the balance between teaching and research in
academic work; analysis of faculty research productivity;
extraction and analysis of significant professional
and personal characteristics of today's academic;
a study of faculty participation in university
governance. The project employs qualitative and
quantitative methodology.
This research will enable me to obtain primary,
original data on the transformation of the academic
profession in Russia, and will serve as the basis
for further analysis at national level and in
cross-cultural perspective in the framework of
globalization. Current trends in higher education
and transformation of the professoriate might
be very similar around the world - a relative
decline in status, increasing differentiation
and diversification among academics, growing concern
about the balance of teaching and research, the
market impact on research activity, the demand
for "managerialism" in academic work
and administration, a damaged academic collegial
culture and declining participation in university
governance. The study also will contribute to
the construction of a model of the contemporary
academic, a composite of various professional
and professional qualities, which might be used
in a comparative perspective for the analysis
of transformation of academic profession.
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