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University of Ottawa Press
18 April 2017
Series: Education
The Academic Gateway: Understanding the Journey to Tenure investigates the experiences of professors employed in tenure-track positions who are starting their career within a university environment, but have not yet attained the affirmation and permanence that tenure offers. The role that they have taken on entails the preparation of students within a professional school. Some of them have very limited professional experience, while others bring multiple years of experience with them in their transition to a faculty of education. The contributors speak to the three key components of their faculty role: teaching, service, and research. Addressing organizational structures and differences relative to prior roles, they examine how these changes have assisted, confused or altered the way they conduct their day-to-day work. They speak about relevant prior experiences, the preparation they received through graduate school, and the details of the learning curve as they entered into their tenure track role. Have they been successful? The reader will experience the same uncertainty and anticipation every professor goes through during their journey to tenure.

This approach amplifies the realism of not knowing whether issues that are spoken about will ultimately be overcome and enhances the validity of their experiences by not biasing the contributions towards those who expect success.
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Imprint:   University of Ottawa Press
Country of Publication:   Canada
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm, 
Weight:   472g
ISBN:   9780776624372
ISBN 10:   0776624377
Series:   Education
Pages:   296
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
"Table of Contents Acknowledgements ix Introduction xi Section I Editors' Preface-Late Tenure-Track 13 1 On the Tenure-Track: Navigating Research, Teaching, and Service Responsibilities in a U15 Institution Frank Deer 17 2 Meet Jill-She Fell Down the Hill but Came Back up Again: Struggling with Mental Illness While on the Path to Tenure Joan M. Chambers 29 3 Re-Locating: Moving Between the Field and the University Lee Anne Block 41 4 Belonging Differently: Immigration, Identity, and Tenure-Track Cecile Badenhorst 51 5 The Three-Headed Monster Greg Rickwood 63 Section II Editors' Preface-Tenure-Track Collaboration 75 6 Women Reflect on Becoming an Academic: Challenges and Supports Memorial's Education Writing Group 79 7 I Think You Are Ambivalent: The Realities of Indigenous Scholarship in Mainstream Universities Onowa McIvor, Maria del Carmen Rodriguez de France, and Trish Rosborough 93 8 A Dynamic Duet: Fluid Mentorship and Holistic Co-Teaching Manu Sharma and Cam Cobb 111 Section III Editors' Preface-Mid-Tenure-Track 129 9 Practitioner to Academic: A Composition of Transitions Timothy M. Sibbald 133 10 Surviving and Thriving in the First Years of Tenure-Track: A Journey Through France, Spain, and Quebec Margarida Romero 145 11 For Academy's Sake: A Former Practitioner's Search for Scholarly Relevance Lloyd Kornelsen 159 12 Transitioning to the Academic Tenure-Track at Mid-Career: Exploring Adaptive and Maladaptive Responses to Challenges and Adversity Peter Milley 179 Section IV Editors' Preface-Early Tenure-Track 199 13 From There to Here Victoria (Tory) Handford 203 14 The ""Ten-Year Road"" to Tenure: A Personal Narrative of the Beginning Phases of the Journey Greg Ogilvie 217 15 Professor, Student, Mother: Can You Have It All? Kathy Snow 233 16 Just Today and Just Tomorrow: Building Capacity on the Tenure-Track in New Brunswick Lyle Hamm 249 Conclusion-Tenure-Track Advice 265 Contributors 273 Index 281"
Author Website:   http://kamino.tru.ca/experts/home/main/bio.html?id=vhandford@tru.ca

Cecile Badenhorst (Contributor) Cecile Badenhorst is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education in the Adult/Post-Secondary programs at Memorial University. She teaches courses on academic literacies and adult teaching. She has published three books in this area: Research Writing (2007), Dissertation Writing (2008), and Productive Writing (2010).Lee Anne Block (Contributor) Lee Anne Block is a teacher educator at the University of Winnipeg. Her research and teaching are focused on how we name and engage with difference in educational locations and on cultural sustainability. She recently completed Gandhi, Globalization and Earth Democracy, a course on sustainability with Vandana Shiva, in residence at Navdanya, India. For twenty years, she was a classroom teacher in Winnipeg.Joan Chambers (Contributor) Joan Chambers is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Lakehead University.Cam Cobb (Contributor) Cam Cobb teaches in the Faculty of Education and Academic Development at the University of Windsor. His research focuses on such topics as social-justice issues in special education, co-teaching in adult-learning contexts, and narrative pedagogy in the arts.Frank Deer (Contributor) Frank Deer is an Assistant Professor and current Director of Indigenous Initiatives in the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba. Frank holds an earned PhD in Educational Administration from the University of Saskatchewan and is published in the area of Indigenous education. Frank has been awarded funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for his work in ancestral languages. He is the current President of the Canadian Association for the Study of Indigenous Education.Timothy Sibbald (Editor) Timothy Sibbald is Associate Professor in the Schulich School of Education at Nipissing University. His primary focus is on mathematics education. He is also Editor of The Gazette, a publication for teachers produced by the Ontario Association of Mathematics Educators.Victoria Handford (Editor) Victoria (Tory) Handford is a professor in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at Thompson Rivers University and is currently the chair of the School of Education. Prior to moving to TRU, Tory held multiple positions in JK12 education as a teacher, vice-principal, and principal. She has been an education officer (Leadership) for the Ontario Ministry of Education and program officer (Standards of Practice and Accreditation) for the Ontario College of Teachers. Her recent publications include a three-book series that addresses experiences of faculty in Canadian universities. Tory has also published multiple articles and chapters addressing components of school and district leadership.

Reviews for The Academic Gateway: Understanding the Journey to Tenure

The slow and subtle buildup of anxiety provoked by reading backward in time through the tenure track process will be unsettlingly relatable for academics on their own tenure-track trek.--Summer Juliet Cowley No 186 (2018) (08/31/2018)


  • Short-listed for Foreword Indies Book of the Year Awards, finalist for Career 2017 (United States)
  • Winner of Foreword INDIE Awards , SILVER winner for Career 2017 (United States)
  • Winner of Foreword INDIE Awards, SILVER winner for Career 2017 (United States)

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