Ferocious resolve : politics, courage, and what it's like to be a professor

This is a critical examination of the people who teach and produce research and scholarship in our institutions of higher education. The insights revealed through probing interviews with individual professors who have made careers in the halls of academia help readers understand the politics, power...

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Main Author Cyprès, Autumn Tooms, 1965- (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2015.
Subjects
College teaching > United States.
College teachers > United States > Interviews.
Education > Schools > Levels > Higher.
Higher education, tertiary education.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806611836
DOI10.1108/978-1-62396-923-3
Physical Description1 online resource (169 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword by joel spring
  • Chapter 1. Prologue by robert stout
  • Chapter 2. What does a professor do?
  • Chapter 2. Who are these people?
  • Chapter 1. Seeking, seeing, and seizing opportunity
  • Chapter 3. Capital and the politics of fit
  • Chapter 4. The rules
  • Chapter 5. Courage and core values
  • Chapter 6. Recognizing the harbinger
  • Chapter 7. The best advice
  • Afterword by james paul gee
  • References
  • Index
  • Appendix.

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