Going the Distance: Towards a new professionalism for full-time distance education faculty at the University of the Philippines

Several constraints influence the formation of a professional identity by full-time distance education faculty at the University of the Philippines. One of these is the marginalisation of distance education (DE) in the academy as a consequence of DE’s identification with low status disciplines, as w...

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Autor principal:	Patricia Arinto
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2007
Materias:	Distance education faculty academic professionalism DE faculty development Special aspects of education LC8-6691
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/1d1cf792a7f3481d8518f21b8feec0cf
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:1d1cf792a7f3481d8518f21b8feec0cf2021-12-02T19:25:12ZGoing the Distance: Towards a new professionalism for full-time distance education faculty at the University of the Philippines10.19173/irrodl.v8i3.4091492-3831https://doaj.org/article/1d1cf792a7f3481d8518f21b8feec0cf2007-12-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/409https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831Several constraints influence the formation of a professional identity by full-time distance education faculty at the University of the Philippines. One of these is the marginalisation of distance education (DE) in the academy as a consequence of DE’s identification with low status disciplines, as well as with developments in higher education that are undermining traditional academic identities. There are also constraints arising from the social organisation of distance education itself. The paper offers a (re)conceptualisation of academic professionalism for distance education faculty that is more responsive to the challenges that they face, and more empowering for themselves and the academic and other communities of which they are a part.Patricia ArintoAthabasca University PressarticleDistance education facultyacademic professionalismDE faculty developmentSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 8, Iss 3 (2007)
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description	Several constraints influence the formation of a professional identity by full-time distance education faculty at the University of the Philippines. One of these is the marginalisation of distance education (DE) in the academy as a consequence of DE’s identification with low status disciplines, as well as with developments in higher education that are undermining traditional academic identities. There are also constraints arising from the social organisation of distance education itself. The paper offers a (re)conceptualisation of academic professionalism for distance education faculty that is more responsive to the challenges that they face, and more empowering for themselves and the academic and other communities of which they are a part.
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Going the Distance: Towards a new professionalism for full-time distance education faculty at the University of the Philippines

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