Professing to learn
Subtitle: creating tenured lives and careers in the American research university
By: Anna Neumann.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780801891311
Subjects: College teachers -- Vocational guidance -- United States; Scholars -- Vocational guidance -- United States; College teachers -- Tenure -- United States
Description: Research, teaching, service, and public outreach -- all are aspects of being a tenured professor. But this list of responsibilities is missing a central component: actual scholarly learning -- disciplinary knowledge that faculty teach, explore in research, and share with the academic community. How do professors pursue such learning when they must give their attention as well to administrative and other obligations?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Into the middle : mapping the early post-tenure career in the research university; title: The heart of the matter : on passionate thought and scholarly learning; title: Mindwork : what and how professors strive to learn; title: Location : where professors pursue their scholarly learning; title: Becoming strategic : recently tenured university professors as agents of scholarly learning, with Kimberley B. Pereira; title: Organizing to learn : what universities provide for professors' scholarly learning; title: The middle re-mapped : toward an ecology of learning in the early post-tenure career.