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Studi sull’apprendimento e l’insegnamento linguistico

Ordinari, Baroni, Maestri, Mentori

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Abstract

In universities there are four types of academicians: full professors, career bosses, masters, and mentors. The essay discusses these four academic figures pointing out some features that help tell which is which, however disguised or blurred they may be. Each type of academician is described, focussing on the relationship with his or her pupils. The reason for this unusual topic is that both Carmel Coonan and I were full professors, worked for decades a few feet from one another, raised pupils – yet we never discussed what our idea of being full professors was. This volume in honour of Carmel Coonan gives me a good chance to think about it, now that we have both retired and have time to think quietly.


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Pubblicato 28 Aprile 2023 | Lingua: it

Keywords Academic careers • Academic life • Academic policy • Mentors and Masters • Knowledge sharing

Copyright © 2023 Paolo E. Balboni. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-683-1/001


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