Academic Cultures: Professional Preparation and the Teaching Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781603290012)

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.

Author: Sean P. Murphy
ISBN-10: 160329001X
ISBN-13: 9781603290012
Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2008
Pages: 247
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2009 pg. 227