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Juggling Flaming Chainsaws - Academics in Educational Leadership Try to Balance Work and Family (Paperback, New)
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Juggling Flaming Chainsaws - Academics in Educational Leadership Try to Balance Work and Family (Paperback, New)
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Challenges of work-life balance in the academy stem from policies
and practices which remain from the time when higher education was
populated mostly by married White male faculty. Those faculty were
successful in their academic work because they depended upon the
support of their wives to manage many of the not-work aspects of
their lives. Imagine a tweedy middle-aged white man, coming home
from the university to greet his wife and children and eat the
dinner she's prepared for him, and then disappearing into his study
for the rest of the evening with his pipe to write and think great
thoughts. If that professor ever existed, he is now emeritus.
Juggling Flaming Chainsaws is the first book in a new series with
Information Age Publishing on these challenges of managing academic
work and not-work. It uses the methodology of autoethnography to
introduce the work-life issues faced by scholars in educational
leadership. While the experiences of scholars in this volume are
echoed across other fields in higher education, educational
leadership is unique because of its emphasis on preparing people
for leadership roles within higher education and for preK-12
schools. Authors include people at different places on their career
and life course trajectory, people who are partnered and single,
gay and straight, with children and without, caring for elders, and
managing illness. They hail from different geographic areas of the
nation, different ethnic backgrounds, and different types of
institutions. What all have in common is commitment to engaging
with this topic, to reflecting deeply upon their own experience,
and to sharing that experience with the rest of us.
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