Limit search to available items
Record 10 of 10
Previous Record Next Record
Book Cover
E-book

Title Women's retreat : voices of female faculty in higher education / edited by Atsuko Seto and Mary Alice Bruce
Published Lanham : University Press of America, Incorporated, [2013]

Copies

Description 1 online resource (viii, 258 pages)
Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; Section One: Career Development; Chapter 1. Parallel Play at the Mad Hatter's Tea House: Writing-In-Relation; Chapter 2. Passionate About Teaching; Chapter 3. A Photograph of Women in Academe: ""Dr. Mom""; Chapter 4. Mentoring: Authentic Connections and Pathways; Section Two: Balancing Personal and Professional Life; Chapter 5. Dancing Backward in High Heels: Balancing Traditionally Male Academia within Feminine Life; Chapter 6. Professional Expectations and Partnership: Perspectives from the Beginning, Middle, and End
Chapter 7. Can You Have It All? The Competing Worlds of Women Balancing Motherhood With an Academic Career in Counselor EducationChapter 8. Balancing Personal Life and Career; Chapter 9. Living in Two Worlds: Personal Perspectives in the Long-Distance Commuter Relationship; Section Three: Cultural and Individual Identity; Chapter 10. Transitions: A Woman on the Move!; Chapter 11. Fostering lnclusivity in Counselor Education for Culturally Diverse Women; Chapter 12. Leaving Home: Relationships and Experiences of a Lifetime; Chapter 13. An Agnostic in Full Bloom; Section Four: Spirituality
Chapter 14. Centrality of the Relationship in Counselor Education: Our Clients, Our Students, OurselvesChapter 15. Weaving a Life Fabric-Faith, Family, and Career; Chapter 16. Soul Work: Who Am I? What Do I Stand For? Where Am I Going?; Index; About the Authors
Summary This book offers inspiration and support to female faculty members in higher education who are at various stages of their professional development. Twenty-four educators share both their intuitive voices and practical knowledge on the topics of career development, balancing personal and professional life, cultural and individual identity, and spirituality
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed
Subject Women college teachers -- Professional relationships -- United States -- Case studies
Women in higher education -- United States -- Case studies
Sex differences in education -- United States -- Case studies
EDUCATION -- Higher.
Women in higher education
Sex differences in education
Universities and colleges
Women college teachers
Women in education
United States
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021676181
ISBN 9780761861140
0761861149