Difficulties of academic professions of young faculty and institutional reform paths in the context of the appointment system: the perspective of new institutionalism
ZHANG Wei1, ZHANG Maocong2
（1. College of Education, Linyi University, Linyi 276002; 2. Faculty of Education, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China）
Abstract：As a new generation of academic forces, young faculty are often regarded as important achievers of organizational academic performance and also main institutional objects of the appointment system reform. Starting from the classical theory of new institutionalism, this paper examines academic professions of young faculty in the context of the appointment system reform, in order to see through the institutional root of the plight of young faculty′s academic professions. With the continuous deepening of the reform of the appointment system, many difficulties of academic professions of young faculty are highlighted. The reform of the appointment system impacts the traditional identity of the "unit person" and ignores path dependence, and many traditional characteristics of academic professions of young faculty are changed. The "principalagent" typical academic contract relationship restrains the action space of young faculty, pursuing academic performance and career competition become normal in young faculty′s academic professions. The alienation phenomenon exists in the process of young faculty′s academic professional behavior and psychological schema. The reform of the appointment system from the perspective of new institutionalism should follow the internal law of academic professions, strengthen the institutional rationality and highlight the reform′s people orientation, and build the culture of grassroots academic organizations and improve the level of discipline governance, so as to realize the purpose of the reform of the appointment system.
张伟, 张茂聪. 聘任制语境下高校青年教师学术职业困境与制度变革路径——新制度主义视角[J]. 高校教育管理, 2020, 14(4): 52-60.
ZHANG Wei, ZHANG Maocong. Difficulties of academic professions of young faculty and institutional reform paths in the context of the appointment system: the perspective of new institutionalism. Journal of Higher Education Management, 2020, 14(4): 52-60.
