Professionals, oaths and flashbacks in the university

The development of an oath for business managers, similar to the Hippocratic Oath, has inspired meditation upon similar oaths for academics and university managers. Such oaths are concerned with formulating and asserting the professionalism of the groups that might take them. This paper argues that, while a legitimate heuristic to help university managers to understand their work and that of those they manage, oaths are an inappropriate device to apply to scholars. Scholars neither form, in important respects, a profession in the way implied by the uncontested professional status enjoyed by doctors, nor as a group aspire to such recognition. Examples drawn from history illustrate the suppressive and un-scholarly atmosphere that has been enforced by oaths

Hippocratic Oath · Meditation · Oath · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Theology · Work (physics · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy

• Oaths of Office in American States

  Open Access•James S Bowman, Jonathan P West•Public Personnel Management•2021

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• The Ethics of Swearing

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• The Academic Profession

  Burton R Clark•Academic Profession•1987

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• The History of the University of Oxford

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• Shifting Identities and Blurring Boundaries

  Open Access•Celia Whitchurch•Higher Education Quarterly•2008

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• Distinction

  Pierre Bourdieu•Food and Culture•2018

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• Why Knowledge Matters in Curriculum

  Leesa Wheelahan•Why knowledge matters in curriculum•2012

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• The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

  Max Weber•Protestant Ethic and the Spirit…•2005

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• Wissenschaft als Beruf

  Max Weber•Wissenschaft Als Beruf•2011

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• The Academic Profession

  Malcolm Campbell, Malcolm B Campbell et al.•History of Education Quarterly•1988

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• A Memo from Machiavelli

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• New managerialism' and higher education

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• Two Hippocratic oaths for higher education

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• Academics and Professional Administrators in Australian Universities

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