The Road to Tenure: Interviews, Rejections, and Other Humorous Experiences - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 147580797X ISBN 13: 9781475807974

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

The Road to Tenure offers humorous recollections of the messiness and confusion that fill the days of a pre-tenure academic-from graduate school through the postdoc and into the assistant professor days. The book's three sections roughly map onto the chronology of academic life, beginning with graduate school and the job search experience; followed by teaching, research, and service; and finally the challenges of family and academic identity.

The book is not a how-to, nor does it emphasize "lessons learned" on the way to tenure. Instead, the collection earnestly, and with good humor, captures a significant and meaningful slice of the experience of pursuing academia in contemporary colleges and universities. For the doctoral student or newly hired faculty member, these essays will provide some comfort with their implicit suggestion that, while it's certainly hard work, you are not alone.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Erin Marie Furtak is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She holds degrees in Biology (B.A., University of Colorado), Education (M.A., University of Denver), and Curriculum and Teacher Education (Ph.D., Stanford University). She currently studies reforms in middle and high school science teaching, exploring different ways that teachers can be supported to improve their teaching practice and how this relates to student learning. She lives in Golden, Colorado, with her husband and two young children, and spends a fair amount of her free time trying to have a sense of humor about her profession.

Ian Parker Renga is Assistant Professor of Education in the Education Department at Western State Colorado University. His research examines the intersection of practice, identity, and culture in teaching and teacher education.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 147580797X
• ISBN 13: 9781475807974
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 152
• Herausgeber: Furtak Erin Marie, Renga Ian Parker
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: GPSR Kontakt; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Deutschland