Description
This volume examines academic careers and career-making endeavors in contemporary society. It serves as a critical forum for theoretical reflection and generalization, a thought-provoking reference for institutional innovation and reform, and a down-to-earth guide for individual learning and practice. Author Victor N. Shaw first explores the key requirements for academicians to make a career, including educational preparation, job searching, institutional placement, and professional networking. Shaw then identifies the essential elements for scholars to build and maintain a career identity, from the degree, position, publication, teaching, presentation, service, grant, award, and membership in academic associations, to tenure. Delving into the consequences of career-making in postmodern academia, Professor Shaw explores how seemingly impulsive individual potential and actions translate into socially effective forces, and established social forces and institutions dominate, manipulate, and oppress creativity and productive endeavors.
About the Author
Victor N. Shaw is Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University-Northridge. Professor Shaw holds a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Hawaii- Manoa.
Reviews
An interesting and scholarly review of the factors involved in becoming a college teacher and researcher today....The author presents an ethical approach to the major decisions associated with one's career. * Career Opportunities News *
How I wish someone could have given me Victor N. Shaw's Career-Making in Post-Modern Academia.... It's the type of book you want to thrust into the hands of every student who sits in your office and says, 'I'm thinking of getting my Ph.D.'.... Shaw's book provides exactly the kind of insider knowledge every graduate student and faculty member must know to negotiate the often inscrutable academy...Good professional advice like this only come by way of a competent and caring mentor.... -- Eric J. Anctil, Assistant Professor, College of Education, Washington State University * The Review of Higher Education *
Book Information
ISBN 9780761830153
Author Victor N. Shaw
Format Paperback
Page Count 230
Imprint Hamilton Books
Publisher University Press of America
Weight(grams) 349g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 170mm * 19mm
About the Author
Victor N. Shaw is Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University-Northridge. Professor Shaw holds a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Hawaii- Manoa.
Reviews
An interesting and scholarly review of the factors involved in becoming a college teacher and researcher today....The author presents an ethical approach to the major decisions associated with one's career. * Career Opportunities News *
How I wish someone could have given me Victor N. Shaw's Career-Making in Post-Modern Academia.... It's the type of book you want to thrust into the hands of every student who sits in your office and says, 'I'm thinking of getting my Ph.D.'.... Shaw's book provides exactly the kind of insider knowledge every graduate student and faculty member must know to negotiate the often inscrutable academy...Good professional advice like this only come by way of a competent and caring mentor.... -- Eric J. Anctil, Assistant Professor, College of Education, Washington State University * The Review of Higher Education *
Book Information
ISBN 9780761830153
Author Victor N. Shaw
Format Paperback
Page Count 230
Imprint Hamilton Books
Publisher University Press of America
Weight(grams) 349g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 170mm * 19mm
