Professing to learn creating tenured lives and careers in the American research university /

Neumann, Anna.

Professing to learn creating tenured lives and careers in the American research university / [electronic resource] : Anna Neumann. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. - ix, 306 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Into the middle : mapping the early post-tenure career in the research university -- The heart of the matter : passionate thought and scholarly learning -- Mindwork : what and how professors strive to learn -- Location : where professors pursue their scholarly learning -- Becoming strategic : recently tenured university professors as agents of scholarly learning / with Kimberley B. Pereira -- Organizing to learn : what universities provide for professors' scholarly learning -- The middle remapped : toward an ecology of learning in the early post-tenure career.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






College teachers--Vocational guidance--United States.
Scholars--Vocational guidance--United States.
College teachers--Tenure--United States.


Electronic books.

LB1778.2 / .N475 2009