Beyond the pride and the privilege : the stories of doctoral students and work-life balance

Attrition among doctoral students has become a perennial issue in higher education (Gardner, 2009; Golde, 2000) as 40 to 60 percent of doctoral students do not complete their program of study (Bair &Haworth, 2005). Such outcomes are inconsistent with the rigorous evaluation that occurs prior to...

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Other Authors Purnamasari, Agustina (Editor), Henry, B. Genise (Editor), Elue, Chinasa A. (Editor), Martinez, Edna (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2015]
SeriesWork-life balance.
Subjects
Doctoral students > Case studies.
Work-life balance > Case studies.
elektronické knihy
Case studies.
Education > Schools > Levels > Higher.
Higher education, tertiary education.
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806611942
DOI10.1108/978-1-62396-908-0
Physical Description1 online resource (xv, 153 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Marybeth Gasman
  • Introduction / Agustina Purnamasari
  • Chapter 1. Rearranging my plate: A doctoral journey / Paul Artale
  • Chapter 2. Learning to inhale / Charlotte Achieng-Evensen
  • Chapter 3. Flying, falling, and the space between / David M. Brown
  • Chapter 4. Living to learn and learning to live: A story of perspective, professionalism, purpose, and perseverance / Melissa R. Byrne
  • Chapter 5. Difficult choices, simple decisions / Keith Cunningham
  • Chapter 6. Tying life together / Taurean Davis
  • Chapter 7. Tick, tock-clock: The never-ending clock / Chinasa A. Elue
  • Chapter 8. Piecing the puzzle together and decorating our lives: Work-life balance and the sacredness of everyday experiences / B. Genise Henry
  • Chapter 9. Deseando todo (desiring it all): Balancing work and life as a latina in the academy / Olga Martinez Hickman
  • Chapter 10. Finding balance by authoring your own life / Jennifer M. Horace
  • Chapter 11. Maintaining work-life balance at the crossroads of culture / Éva Kardos
  • Chapter 12. Late night pillow talk: A couple's reflections on balancing marriage, parenthood, and phds / Daniel Lipe and Kaiwipuni Lipe
  • Chapter 13. The juggling act: Finding work-life balance with a little help! / Bibiana Mancera
  • Chapter 14. Mi vida loca: My crazy life as a full-time doctoral student / Edna Martinez
  • Chapter 15. Raising diego: Work is work, family is everything / Marlen Kanagui-Muñoz and José Muñoz
  • Chapter 16. Once upon a time (there was a balanced life) / Agustina Veny Purnamasari
  • Chapter 17. Using the skills at the ecologies to balance work, home, and school as a doctoral student / Dagoberto Eli Ramirez
  • Chapter 18. Soaring on the wings of sankofa: Ethnographical retrospective of a black woman pursuing the phdvjuhanna rogers
  • Chapter 19. Write, run, repeat: A rewarding marathon to the phd and wellness / Leslie Jo Shelton
  • Chapter 20. Menudo for the spirit / Marissa Vásquez Urias
  • Chapter 21. Deadlines and trying to survive: My life as a doctoral student / James Vines. Notes
  • Author biographies.

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