| Academic Cultures: Professional Preparation and the Teaching Life Contributor(s): Murphy, Sean P. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1603290001 ISBN-13: 9781603290005 Publisher: Modern Language Association of America OUR PRICE: $35.63 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Professional Development - Education | Higher |
| Dewey: 378.125 |
| LCCN: 2008022969 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9" (1.05 lbs) 247 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For better or for worse, the goal of securing tenure-track assistant professorships frames the graduate school experience for most students. Yet what the graduate experience boasts in scholarly training it lacks in institutional training--that is, in guiding future faculty members to see and experience positively the wide variety of prospective professional identities rooted in assorted academic cultures. Academic Cultures: Professional Preparation and the Teaching Life gives voice to diversity in postsecondary education, a strength of the system rather than a problem to redress. Contributors, whether they work at a private high school or a public comprehensive university, an open-access institution or a religiously affiliated college, disclose to readers the details and outcomes of their cross-sector transitions. Their accounts show how faculty members from a range of institutions have built rewarding professional lives based on the traditional components of the professoriat--teaching, service, and scholarship. |