Academic cultures : professional preparation and the teaching life / edited by Sean P. Murphy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murphy, Sean P., 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College teachers--United States.

College teachers.

United States.

College teaching--Vocational guidance--United States.

College teaching.

College teaching--Vocational guidance.

Corporate culture--United States.

Corporate culture.

Physical Description:

ix, 247 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2008.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction / Sean P. Murphy 1

I Academic Career Options

Tribal College Teaching: A Covert Option for Graduate Students / Ginny Carney 13

Since You Didn't Ask: Reflections on Foreign Language Teaching / James W. Jones 24

Across the Great Divide: Teaching in Rural Montana and Beyond / Aeron Haynie 39

Arrested Intellectual Development? An English PhD Teaches High School / Stephen da Silva 51

Overtures from Abroad: An Inside Look at University Teaching in Taiwan / Douglas Scott Berman 62

Grow Where You're Planted: The Invitation to Work at a Conservative Lutheran University / Lynnell Edwards 72

II Reflections On Careers At Teaching-Intensive Colleges

Undergraduate Foreign Language Instruction: A View from an Urban Campus / Robert Chierico, Fabiola Fernandez Salek, Evelyne Norris, Virginia Shen 87

"Where Is the Center of the World?": Teaching ESL at a Border College / Ellen Cohen 99

It's about Lifestyle: Reflections on Teaching at a Small Catholic College / Nancy J. Brown 111

Reading, Writing, and Teaching in Context / Mark C. Long 121

Local Politics and Voice: Speaking to Be Heard during the Pretenure Years / Ann E. Green 133

III Preparing Future Faculty Members

Coming Home Surprised: Indirect Paths to the Professoriat / Carol Rutz 149

A Study-Abroad Guide for Foreign Language Faculty Members / Anne Pasero 160

Faculty-in-Training Program: Preparing Future Community College Faculty Members / Jo Ann Buck, MacGregor Frank 170

Preparing Future Teacher-Scholars / Victoria N. Salmon 184

From Graduate Student to Faculty Member: Teaching Foreign Languages at Two-Year Colleges / Deborah Gill 193

Creative Professionalization: Inculcating Divergent Career Concepts in Doctoral Candidates / Adrielle Mitchell 208

Making Pedagogy Our Business: Strengthening the Ties between English Education and Composition-Rhetoric / Heidi Estrem 221.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-243) and index.

ISBN:

9781603290005

1603290001

9781603290012

160329001X

OCLC:

231162572