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Vesilind P. Aarne
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Titolo: |
So you want to be a professor? : a handbook for graduate students / / P. Aarne Vesilind
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Pubblicazione: | Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Sage Publications, c2000 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (x, 197 p.) : ill |
Disciplina: | 378.12 |
Soggetto topico: | College teachers - Employment - United States |
College teaching - Vocational guidance - United States | |
Graduate students - Employment - United States | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-185) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 - Employment Opportunities In Academia; The American Higher Educational System; Expectations Differ for Faculties at Different Colleges and Universities; The Good and the Bad of Choosing an Academic Career; Chapter 2 - Getting on Academic Job; To Post-Doc or Not to Post-Doc?; Choosing Where to Apply for a Tenure-Track Job; Salary; Other Considerations; Applying for a Job While Holding the ABD; The Job Opening; The Job Notice; The Application; The Screening; The Interview; The Seminar; The Second Visit; The Rejection; The Offer; Appendix: Internet Resources |
Chapter 3 - Learning to TeachHow Students Learn; Sensory Learning; Motivation; Intellectual Development; Chapter 4 - Organising a Course; Deciding What Students Should Learn; Choosing a Text; Writing the Syllabus; Chapter 5 - Presenting a Course; Lecturing; Using Visual Aids; Alternatives to Lectures; Chapter 6 - Meeting Vour First Class; First-Time Fears; The First Class Session; Chapter 7 - Testing and Evaluation; Validity and Reliability; Giving Tests; Student Evaluations; Chapter 8 - Advising and Mentoring; Making Students Welcome; Student-Specific Advising | |
Responding to Personal ProblemsMentoring; Chapter 9 - Research and Scholarship; Why Universities Emphasize Research and Published Scholarship; Choosing the Topic for Research or Scholarship; Choosing the Funding Agency; Writing Your Proposal; Getting Your Proposal Funded; Chapter 10 - Publishing; How to Write a Scholarly Paper; Submitting Yout Paper for Publication; The Sticky Question o f Authorship; Writing a Book; Presenting Papers at Scholarly Conferences; Chapter 11 - Getting Tenure; The Origins and Justification for Tenure; The Tenuring Process; An Alternative Path to Tenure | |
Is There Life After a Negative Tenure Decision?Arguments Against Tenure; Chapter 12 - Academic Integrity; Moral Justification for Academic Honor; Preventing Cheating; Using the Judicial System; Honor in Research and Publishing; Conflict of Interest; Copyrights and Patents; Moral Responsibility to and of the Professorate; Chapter 13 - Getting fired; Six Ways to Lose a Tenured Academic Job; Justification for Moral Rules in Academia; Chapter 14 - The Academic Career; Keeping the Balls in the Air; Progression of Your Academic Career; Epilogue; Appendix: Supplementary Readings; Index | |
About the Author | |
Sommario/riassunto: | This is a comprehensive guide for graduates from any academic discipline who want to pursue an academic career. The author covers a wide range of skills for future success including teaching, testing and maintaining a research programme. |
Titolo autorizzato: | So you want to be a professor ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-4833-9184-1 |
0-7619-1896-5 | |
1-322-30710-5 | |
1-4522-6339-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910819493003321 |
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