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The Parent Track: Timing, Balance, and Choice in Academia
Christina Deroche
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Description for The Parent Track: Timing, Balance, and Choice in Academia
Paperback. Provides an in-depth understanding of diverse parenting experiences at different phases of the academic career in Canada. The anthology not only captures a comprehensive understanding of parenthood and academia; it also reveals the shifting ideologies surrounding the challenges in negotiating a work and family balance in this context. Editor(s): Deroche, Christina; Berger, Ellie. Num Pages: 265 pages. BIC Classification: VFX; VSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 464.
The Parent Track provides an in-depth understanding of parenting in academia, from diverse perspectivesagender, age, race/ethnicity, marital status, sexual orientationaand at different phases of a parent's academic career. This collection not only arrives at a comprehensive understanding of parenthood and academia; it reveals the shifting ideologies surrounding the challenges of negotiating work and family balance in this context. Earlier research on parenting has documented the ways in which women and men experience, and subsequently negotiate, their roles as parents in the context of the workplace and the home. Particular attention has been paid to the negotiation of familial and childcare ... Read more
The Parent Track provides an in-depth understanding of parenting in academia, from diverse perspectivesagender, age, race/ethnicity, marital status, sexual orientationaand at different phases of a parent's academic career. This collection not only arrives at a comprehensive understanding of parenthood and academia; it reveals the shifting ideologies surrounding the challenges of negotiating work and family balance in this context. Earlier research on parenting has documented the ways in which women and men experience, and subsequently negotiate, their roles as parents in the context of the workplace and the home. Particular attention has been paid to the negotiation of familial and childcare ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
464g
Number of Pages
265
Place of Publication
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
ISBN
9781771122412
SKU
V9781771122412
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About Christina Deroche
Christina DeRoche is an adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology at Nipissing University, North Bay. Her areas of research are special education, special needs, and family relations. She recently published an article on how parents seek out labels in education to afford opportunities for their children. Ellie Berger is an associate professor of sociology at Nipissing University, North Bay. ... Read more
Reviews for The Parent Track: Timing, Balance, and Choice in Academia
If finding work-life balance in academia is, at the best of times, a stretch, then finding work-life balance as caregivers to both classrooms and children seems a near-impossibility. The essays in this collection walk the line between realism and despair, and I found myself nodding in recognition at some of the impossible demands that both family and academia place on ... Read more