Faculty Entitlement: Perspectives of Novice Brazilian University Professors
Understanding Excessive Teacher and Faculty Entitlement
ISBN: 978-1-80043-941-2, eISBN: 978-1-80043-940-5
Publication date: 30 September 2021
Abstract
The context of this study is Brazil, which has seen more than a decade of expansion in higher education and increased access to public universities. Our investigation deals with the perceptions of novice faculty members or “professors”, as they are addressed in Brazil, on entitled behavior at universities. These professors participants are from institutions located in three different states in Brazil. We wanted to find out how these newcomers to university teaching perceived entitled attitudes in faculty–students and faculty–peer interactions. The chapter includes possible implications for relations in the workplace and discusses the gaps between expectations of the nature of social relationships in the universities among faculty and between faculty and students, on the one hand, and reality, on the other. The research uses narrative as its method of inquiry. This chapter sheds light on an issue that brings discomfort to professors and students. A mutual desire for cooperative and horizontal relations is expressed.
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Acknowledgements
Acknowledgement
We thank Fundação Carlos Chagas de Amparo à Pesquisa do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ) for the financial support of our research.
Citation
Prata-Linhares, M., da Fontoura, H.A. and de Almeida Pimenta, M.A. (2021), "Faculty Entitlement: Perspectives of Novice Brazilian University Professors", Ratnam, T. and Craig, C.J. (Ed.) Understanding Excessive Teacher and Faculty Entitlement (Advances in Research on Teaching, Vol. 38), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 179-190. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-368720210000038012
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