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Teaching and Research of Korean Academics Across Career Stages

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This chapter discusses how teaching and research activities differ across academics’ career stages. Specifically, we focus on differences in their preference for teaching and research, budgeting time, teaching methods used, research approach, and research productivity. For this chapter, we analyzed a sample of 900 academics in the Korean Changing Academic Profession data. We found that senior academics lean more toward teaching but allocate more time on research; junior academics on the other hand have a stronger preference for research but spend more time on teaching and administration. In their teaching, Korean academics use lecturing as their main instructional method. In the classroom, interestingly, senior academics tend to emphasize practical and more socially oriented knowledge than do their junior colleagues. In terms of academic productivity, junior academics have a high rate of publication in international journals, while senior academics are high performers in relation to domestic journals and book publications.

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This research was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea Grant funded by the Korean Government (NRF-2010-330-B00232).

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  1. Department of Education, Seoul National University, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, South Korea

    Jung Cheol Shin & Yangson Kim

  2. The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

    Jisun Jung

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  1. , Dept. of Education, Seoul National University, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 151-742, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Jung Cheol Shin

  2. , Research Institute for Higher Education, Kurashiki Sakuyo University, Tamashima Nagao 3515, Kurashiki, Okayama, 710-0292, Japan

    Akira Arimoto

  3. , Graduate School of Education and HD, George Washington University, G. Street 2134, Washington, 20052, District of Columbia, USA

    William K. Cummings

  4. , INCHER, University of Kassel, Moenchebergstrasse 17, Kassel, 34109, Germany

    Ulrich Teichler

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Shin, J.C., Jung, J., Kim, Y. (2014). Teaching and Research of Korean Academics Across Career Stages. In: Shin, J., Arimoto, A., Cummings, W., Teichler, U. (eds) Teaching and Research in Contemporary Higher Education. The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6830-7_10

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