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The long-views of experienced academics from across Canada portray the lived experiences in higher education in Canada. At times raw, and other times suggestive of changes, the contributions illustrate sense-making at its various stages in academic careers in relation to teaching, research, and service.
Work-life balance realities and challenges arising from flexibility required by academic work are part of the journey for academics, and are seen in the chapter contributions. It also considers how academics respond to needs of academic institutions as various transformations occur to address societal needs. A final section “Academia as Crucible” brings academic views of sense making to years of academic experience.
While the book is stand-alone, it also book-ends the four-book series, which taken together, voice various experiences from being in the tenure-track, to around the time of tenure, and during sabbaticals. Together, the four books are the most comprehensive portrait of lived experiences in the modern academy.
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).
Timothy Sibbald (Editor)
Timothy Sibbald is Professor of mathematics education in the Schulich School of Education at Nipissing University. His research interests include a variety of aspects of mathematics education and lived experiences in academia. He has examined historical trends in math education, developed a framework for STEM education, and is developing a broad interpretation of interdisciplinary learning. He has edited and co-edited four books. Tim is a long-standing editor of the Ontario Mathematics Gazette. He lives in North Bay, Ontario, Canada.
Victoria Handford (Editor)
Victoria (Tory) Handford is Professor of education leadership in the School of Education at Thompson Rivers University. She is past chair of the School of Education and served six years as the Coordinator of Graduate Programs. Her research has spanned many areas, but primarily rests in JK-12 school and district leadership. She has edited and co-edited five books. Her current research involves internationally experienced teachers and their successes in the K-12 school system in Canada. She lives in Kamloops, British-Columbia, Canada.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section 1: Describing Life as an Academic
1 - Four Seasons of Nature, Life, and Academia: Treasured Moments, Challenges, and Dilemmas
Pei-Ying Lin
2 - Finding Tiresias
Lyle Hamm
3 - Teaching Is What I Know: An Academic Nears Retirement
Lloyd Kornelsen
4 - Wellness in an Academic Institution: Mediators and Impediments of My Personal Journey of Wellness
Greg Ogilvie
5 - Reflections About Leadership in Universities: A Reflective Study of Leadership Approaches, Theories, and Impacts
Shelleyann Scott
Section 2: The Leaning of the Ivory Tower
6 - Eyes Wide Shut: A Longitudinal Analysis of Institutional Culture
Greg Rickwood
7 - Reflections on Growth and Change for the Academy and Myself
Kathy Snow
8 - An Academic Career Through the Lens of a Disability
Donald E. Scott
9 - Pigments of Higher Education
Victoria (Tory) Handford
10 - Unfinished: Developing an Academic Writing Career
Cecile Badenhorst
11 - Winter Is . . . Here!
Anahit Armenakyan
Section 3: Academia as Crucible
12 - Continuing an Academic Journey: An Ongoing Search for Balance and Meaning
Peter Milley
13 - Belonging and the Academy
Timothy M. Sibbald
14 - Anxiety, Acceptance, and Advocacy: Academic Career Reflections from Two Female Full Professors from Two Continents
Merridee Bujaki and Silvia Pereira de Castro Casa Nova
15 - “If I Had My Time back”: Poetic Reflections on Seasons in the Academy
Heather McLeod, Cecile Badenhorst, Jacqueline Hesson, Xuemei Li, Sharon Penney, Sarah Pickett, and Gabrielle Young
Conclusions
Book Series Conclusion
Contributors