Roy Becher - Publications#

His eight authored and co-authored books include an edited survey of British Higher Education (1987). Yet it was Academic Tribes and Territories (1989; second edition with Paul Trowler, 2001) that became a classic. He shed new light on how people working in different disciplines tend to have their own cognitive and social characteristics, and distinctive models of learning and the reproduction of knowledge. His expanded his insights into the broader field of professional expertise in Professional Practices: Commitment and Capability in a Changing Environment (1999).