On the High Wire

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On the High Wire

Education Professors Walk Between Work and Parenting

Educational administration and organization Higher education, tertiary education Parenting: advice and issues

Authors: George Theoharis, Sharon Dotger

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Collection: Work-Life Balance

Language: English

Published by: Information Age Publishing

Published on: 19th February 2015

Format: LCP-protected ePub

ISBN: 9781806611577


Purpose of the Series

The purpose of the work/life balance series is to highlight particular challenges that higher education faculty face as they participate in the demands of the academy and try to prevent those demands from invading their personal lives.

About On The High Wire

On The High Wire looks at a specific subset of university faculty, education faculty with school-aged children, and the specific professional/personal balance these faculty need to find.

The Title and Its Significance

The title On the High Wire suggests the precarious nature of the "walk" for education faculty who are parents of school-aged children.

Identity and Roles

We know that our identities are central to how we experience the world and how the world reacts to us. This reality is clearly visible in this book. These multiple identities and roles come into conflict at multiple points and in different ways.

Exploration of Tensions

This book explores these identities and roles through autoethnographic accounts written by varied education faculty in order to make these tensions visible for the field to address.

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