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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Anna Neumann (Professor of Higher Education, Teachers College, Columbia University)Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9780801891311ISBN 10: 0801891310 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 27 July 2009 Recommended Age: From 17 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Into the Middle: Mapping the Early Post-Tenure Career in the Research University 2. The Heart of the Matter: Passionate Thought and Scholarly Learning 3. Mindwork: What and How Professors Strive to Learn 4. Location: Where Professors Pursue Their Scholarly Learning 5. Becoming Strategic: Recently Tenured University Professors as Agents of Scholarly Learning 6. Organizing to Learn: What Universities Provide for Professors' Scholarly Learning 7. The Middle Remapped: Toward an Ecology of Learning in the Early Post-Tenure Career Appendix A: Study Designs and Background Data Appendix B: Interview Protocols and Consent Forms for the Four Universities Project Appendix C: Framework: University Professors' Scholarly Learning Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsNeumann has written a passionate text. She asks us to think about what matters to us-and what should matter. She contends that academic work is a calling, or a vocation... Any text that is so elegantly written on such an important topic deserves a careful reading even if we end up disagreeing with one or another point. -- William G. Tierney Academe A new perspective on the faculty career... Neumann provides the reader with an elegant and reverent understanding of this often misunderstood time in the career lives of faculty members while at the same time reminding us why we do what we do. Teachers College Record This book should be read by all university leaders, policy makers, and professors because it sheds light on one of the most important aspects of higher education. -- Peter Grabe Teaching Theology and Religion An unusually nuanced, textured look at this special group of faculty who have recently 'passed the test' and been awarded tenure. - Jack Schuster, coauthor of The American Faculty: The Restructuring of Academic Work and Careers Neumann has written a passionate text. She asks us to think about what matters to us-and what should matter. She contends that academic work is a calling, or a vocation... Any text that is so elegantly written on such an important topic deserves a careful reading even if we end up disagreeing with one or another point. -- William G. Tierney Academe A new perspective on the faculty career... Neumann provides the reader with an elegant and reverent understanding of this often misunderstood time in the career lives of faculty members while at the same time reminding us why we do what we do. Teachers College Record 2010 This book should be read by all university leaders, policy makers, and professors because it sheds light on one of the most important aspects of higher education. -- Peter Grabe Teaching Theology and Religion 2011 Author InformationAnna Neumann is a professor of higher education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and coauthor of Redesigning Collegiate Leadership: Teams and Teamwork in Higher Education, also published by Johns Hopkins. She is the winner of the American Educational Research Association's 2010 Exemplary Research Award and was recently named President-Elect of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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