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- Title
Orientations to the public in the academic profession.
- Authors
Johnson, David R.; Ecklund, Elaine Howard
- Abstract
What do academics think about their "responsibilities" to the public? This chapter provides a view of "the public intellectual" by examining how academics construct their relationship to the public. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with physicists at universities in the United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK), we illustrate a typological approach that could be applied to understanding the public intellectual in any academic discipline and points to implications for how universities and the academic profession can engage with the public. Academics should view themselves as stewards of the public good and be able to articulate how such a role is manifest in their work.
- Subjects
COLLEGE teachers; PHYSICISTS; HIGHER education; COLLEGE curriculum; ACADEMIC degrees
- Publication
New Directions for Higher Education, 2022, Vol 2022, Issue 200, p35
- ISSN
0271-0560
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/he.20461