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Cultural Capital as an Interpretive Framework for Faculty Life

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Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research

Part of the book series: Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research ((HATR,volume 14))

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Today’s college and university faculty remain an important topic of study in the world of contemporary higher education. Part of this importance stems from the increasing variation we see with respect to many facets of faculty life. For example, intellectual specialization within disciplines has led to seemingly innumerable sub-specializations such that colleagues within the same department have difficulty communicating; shifting “resource streams” have favored certain academic areas and disadvantaged others such that faculty previously well-supported now find themselves struggling to keep their research programs intact; new pedagogical challenges abound, such as the arrival of internet courses and other forms of distance education, to which some faculty respond readily and to which others respond only grudgingly. Not that faculty members have ever been a particularly monolithic or uniform lot, the increasing complexity and variation that have defined academic life historically continue to persist; it is easy to see that for all we know about faculty, much remains undiscovered and unprobed.

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Bieber, J.P. (1999). Cultural Capital as an Interpretive Framework for Faculty Life. In: Smart, J.C., Tierney, W.G. (eds) Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research. Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3955-7_9

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