摘要:PALE: Professionalism, Administration and Leadership in Education. We are a group of JALT Members who are concerned with professional and employment issues, particularly in the Japanese university system. In recent years, we have been documenting specific cases that will have long-term effects on the treatment of non-Japanese employees. We choose the article by Daniel Kirk because it is a self-contained, albeit longer, essay on why people should care about contract employment with a case study on its specific effects on professionalism