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GALAZ FONTES, Jesús Francisco  e  GIL ANTON, Manuel. The Teaching Profession in Mexico: a Job in Process of Reconfiguration. REDIE [online]. 2009, vol.11, n.2, pp.1-31. ISSN 1607-4041.

This work is part of the international research project, The Changing Academic Profession (CAP), which is studying the reconfiguration of the teaching profession in more than 20 co untries. It explores the specific ways in which the process of academic work has been tran sformed in Mexico. The features of this professional activity, as centered in the academic world of the institutions of higher education at the beginning of the 1990's-when compare d with its present characteristics-throw light, pose questions and make conjectures about this significant change, as well as about lines of continuity that must be recognized and ex plained. The reconfiguration of the academic profession in Mexico has occurred in the cont ext of a public-policy agenda concerning higher education and academic personnel. We a pproach this question for the purpose of locating its analysis in the context of a new regulat ory framework of academic life. This new effort is part of the series of studies carried out in the country during the last twenty years, and gives evidence for the teaching profession's reconfiguration in four dimensions: gender; teacher's age on entering the profession; comp osition of the faculty according to academic level; level of scholarity of academics' families of origin, and families today. It also explores the variations that have occurred during the fi fteen years in which the new policies have been in operation in different types of institutions, since the academic world as a whole is made up of small and diverse subworlds. This ar ticle ends with a general reflection on these changes.

Palavras-chave : Faculty; higher education; academic profession.

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