书目名称 | Forging a Rewarding Careerin the Humanities | 副标题 | Advice for Academics | 编辑 | Karla P. Zepeda,Ellen Mayock | 视频video | | 概述 | The volume offers a broad slate of experiences and advice for individuals who want to approach the career path in an informed, deliberate, and flexible way. | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | As has been abundantly documented in the popular and academic press, the humanities are facing challenging times marked by national debate regarding the importance of the humanities in higher education, program and budget cuts, and an ever-decreasing number of tenure-track jobs. In addition, the humanities face quite literally a quantification of their value as the Academy adopts a more corporate mindset. This volume provides advice to professionals in the humanities on how to forge a useful, compelling, and productive career. The book’s 13 chapters address professional approaches to developing and maintaining an active research agenda, fomenting the ideals of the teacher-scholar model, managing the service demands within and outside the college or university, and navigating institutional politics. The collection offers practical and theoretical approaches to higher education, personal anecdotes, intelligent advice, and interviews with colleagues in the humanities. Specific themes addressed include the transition from graduate student to humanities professional, diverging from prescribed paths, the humanities professor as creative writer, moving from secondary to post-secondary edu | 出版日期 | Book 2014 | 关键词 | College teachers; Education, higher; Humanities professionals; Humanities--writing, research; mentoring | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-845-9 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-6209-845-9 | copyright | SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2014 |
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