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Professional agency in a university context: Academic freedom and fetters
2020
Professional agency is an urgent topic in academic contexts, albeit relatively unexplored, and elaborated with contradictory conclusions on its extent and characteristics. To contribute to the discussion, this multimethod study investigated professional agency within a Finnish university. We utilised questionnaire data and interviews to explore agency, as manifested in influencing at work, developing work practices, and negotiating professional identity. We found that overall, these three dimensions of agency were manifested fairly substantially, and in a similar manner among the academic staff. The study further emphasises the social nature of professional agency, and presents theoretical …
Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf e il mutamento delle classi sociali
2022
Il capitolo venti è parte del manuale Sociologia generale curato da Rita Bichi fondato sulla categoria di persona nella sua correlazione con la struttura sociale. Ralf Dahrendorf (1929-2009) vede nell’attraversamento dei confini - disciplinari, teorici, lavorativi, territoriali – un elemento di vitalità e ricchezza creativa. È un intellettuale pubblico. Il continuo “cavalcare il confine” nel corso della sua vita gli permette di connettere mondi diversi, senza cancellarne le differenze, di passare dalla teoria alla prassi e viceversa, come studioso, come docente, come consigliere, giornalista e politico. Da ciò deriva la difficoltà di collocarlo esclusivamente all’interno di una definizione …
Institutional Autonomy and Academic Freedom in the Nordic Context — Similarities and Differences
2013
Owing to their common history, similarities in language and culture, long traditions in political collaboration and the shared Nordic societal model, an assumption is often made that the operational and regulatory context of universities is similar in the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. In this article, we examine the relationship between the Nordic higher education institutions and their specific governments. The interpretation of institutional autonomy and academic freedom in the Nordic countries is discussed with support from recently collected empirical data, Nordic university legislation and the topical research literature. We describe the differenc…