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This section needs to be reworked. It need to clarify whether it is an appointment or a title, or both. It also should use the original word for each country, as done in all other section.

  • FWIW, the statement in the article is accurate w.r.t. docent being an academic title in Russia, see e.g. [1] or [2] oxana (talk)
    • This is completly wrong statement. We have an appointment and a title. For example, my wife works in Voronezh State University and has docent appointment. But she has not docent title because she does not feet corresponding standard which says:

Academic rank of docent may be awarded to doctors and candidates of sciences, replacing of an employment contract as a docent, professor, head of department, dean, head of the branch or institution, Provost, Rector of the institution of higher education or training institutions, as well as undergoing military service under contract, having a doctorate or PhD, replacing docent, professor, department head, chief of department, head of the branch or institution, the deputy head or chief of the university, the deputy head or head of the institution training or substitute similar positions in higher educational or training institutions in accordance with the list approved by the head of the federal executive body, in which federal law provides for military service if they have published educational-methodical and scientific papers, lectured and led training in a professional manner, as well as at the time of attestation of documents:

a) successfully working (military service under contract) in these positions during the year;
b) have experience of scientific and pedagogical work at least five years, including at least three years of teaching work in universities or institutions of excellence;
c) is an author (coauthors) textbook (manual) or at least two methodological papers published over the past three years;
d) are the authors (co-) book (chapters in the book), or at least two scientific papers published over the past three years.

Actually, my wife have not worked on on docent appointment sufficient amount of time. Next year academic Council of the our University may submit her to the docent title and than Ministry of Education of Russia may give this title. But she may work as docent without tile of docent but this can imply refusal to renew the contract by the university if would be other candidates on docent appointment with docent title--Вантус (talk) 22:55, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think one can generalize. The word means different things in different countries. I have been a docent in Russia, and am now a Full Professor in the US. The Russian (and all post-Soviet) docent is the same as Associate Professor in the US. Their ranks; Instructor, "Assistent", "Dotsent", Professor. This is roughly the equivalent of American Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate professor, Full. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.221.122.158 (talk) 00:57, 30 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  • In Hungary docens is an appointment equivalent to associate professor or senior lecturer. It is the lowest tenure position (full professor being the other). While in theory it conveys the right to teach, in essence any academic or research staff can teach anything (albeit a docent or full professor might be responsible for the course if it is an obligatory). There is no such requirement in courses that can be choose, but are not mandatory. --Kunadam (talk) 11:37, 13 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

In French?

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hoodfdocent, hoogleraar and gewoon hoogleraar. can we have these in french as well?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.111.155.204 (talk) 13:52, 14 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Clerical docents?

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The article on The Da Vinci Code mentions a docent at the Rosslyn Chapel (docent is not used in the corresponding article on the film) indicating that docent might also be some type of clerical position.150.227.15.253 (talk) 17:25, 21 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Could it be simply a museum docent? --vuo (talk) 09:14, 22 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

United States of America

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In America we use the term for people who work at museums. Should I find a source and add that? Cameron Nedland (talk) 16:09, 5 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Docents at many museums are unpaid volunteers, but some house museums have paid docents with more duties than the unpaid ones.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 23:50, 8 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

See museum docent. Kaihsu (talk) 18:44, 15 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Title of Docent?

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while the term used by the University of Helsinki is Title of Docent

If someone has the title of docent, isn’t the person a docent? Why this awkward phrase “Title of Docent”? Kaihsu (talk) 08:09, 15 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Alternatively “titular docent”, like titular bishop. Kaihsu (talk) 08:10, 15 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]