On the High Wire
Education Professors Walk Between Work and Parenting
1st Edition
Published on 2. January 2015
323 pages
978-1-62396-929-5 (ISBN)
Description
The purpose of the work/life balance series is to highlight particular challenges that higher education faculty face as they participate in the demands of the academy and try to prevent those demands from invading their personal lives. On The High Wire looks at a specific subset of university faculty, education faculty with school-aged children, and the specific professional/personal balance these faculty need to find. The title On the High Wire suggests the precarious nature of the "e;walk"e; for education faculty who are parents of school-aged children. We know that our identities are central to how we experience the world and how the world reacts to us. This reality is clearly visible in this book. These multiple identities and roles come into conflict at multiple points and in different ways. This book explores these identities and roles through autoethnographic accounts written by varied education faculty in order to make these tensions visible for the field to address.
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George Theoharis | Sharon Dotger
On the High Wire
Education Professors Walk Between Work and Parenting
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02/2015
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Content
- Intro
- Education Professors Walk Between Work and Parenting
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- Note On Author Biographies
- Section I
- It Takes a Village.. A Faceboo k Village
- Dancing With Demons
- Magnet School Mom
- Navigati ng Famil y, Educatio n, and Orientatio n Identities in Schools
- At the Intersection of Heart and Mind
- Between a Rock and a Hard Place
- Finding a Space and Place for the Next Step on the High Wire
- Delusio nal Commitments, the Collateral Damage of Divorce and the Superpowers of True Teacher Friends
- Loving and Listening
- Reflections on a Clarifying Conversatio n
- Let's Go Home
- Cover Story
- Do the Ends Justify The Means?
- The "Unembraceable" Boy, the Dilemma, and the Critical Incident of Summer 2013
- Teaching to Grade Level or Teaching to Mastery
- I'm Talking but No One Is Listening
- Three Spaces , One Body
- SECTION II
- Homeward Bound
- A Tale of Two Institutions Or . Myths and Musings on Work/Life Balance
- Navigati ng Porous Boundaries
- Professor Parent
- A Very Tired Cheerleader
- "Brandon's Dad is Gay!"
- A Humbling Journey
- Inner Conflicts Between What I Know and What I Experience
- Living in the Intersection
- Walking the Balance Beam
- Did They Really Just Say That ?
- A Liminal Space
- Not Sure Who I Am .
- She Can't Touch Books and the Secretaries are Teaching Math
- Negotiati ng Majority- Minority Contradictions as a Lati na Parent and Teacher-Educator
