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Taking Stock at Mid‐Career: Challenges and Opportunities for Faculty
Author(s) -
BakerFletcher Karen,
Carr David,
Menn Esther,
Ramsay Nancy J.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
teaching theology and religion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.165
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1467-9647
pISSN - 1368-4868
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9647.2005.00217.x
Subject(s) - curiosity , alienation , feeling , institution , psychology , public relations , pedagogy , career portfolio , higher education , expose , sociology , medical education , career development , social psychology , political science , social science , medicine , law , physics , astronomy
. Beginning with a series of questions designed to peak reader curiosity and expose key challenges for mid‐career faculty, the authors uncover several issues in post‐tenure faculty life and work, and they reflect on images for understanding and responding to these challenges. Topics identified include mid‐career as an opportunity for deeper investment in one's teaching, challenges associated with competing claims for time, shifts in research that can accompany the transition to mid‐career, challenges in dealing with an increasing generational gap between oneself and one's students, responsibilities associated with being a longer‐term member of a faculty, and feelings of fatigue and occasional alienation from one's educational institution and/or church.