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This volume reviews and synthesizes recent research on faculty demographics, appointment types, work life, and reward systems, as well as major theoretical perspectives useful to researchers who study faculty work, careers, and professional development. In doing so, it advances and challenges current dialogue on faculty careers, notably by exploring a "narrative of constraint" that underlies much contemporary research and reform in higher education. Although highlighting the valuable ways whereby the "narrative of constraint" has illuminated the myriad barriers than can--and too often do--inhibit faculty careers, the authors assert that the theme of "constraint" obscures possibility, learning, agency, and growth. In emphasizing constraint, many contemporary research and reform efforts overlook faculty striving for growth. The volume reintroduces growth as an important consideration in higher education discourses of policy and practice, and with attention to four of its key learning, agency, professional relationships, and commitments. The authors discuss current research on faculty demographics, appointments, work, reward systems, along with theories used in research, relative to t
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- Author
- KerryAnn O'Meara, Aimee LaPointe Terosky, Anna Neumann
- Publisher
- San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey-Bass
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780470439715
- Category
- education
- Subjects
- Education
- Rating
- 3 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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