Date of Award
2012
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Department
Educational Administration and Leadership
First Advisor
Lynn Beck
First Committee Member
Joanna Royce-Davis
Second Committee Member
Marilyn E. Draheim
Abstract
Many faculty enter the professoriate with high ideals. They have identity conceptions of themselves as potential change-agents, expanding human knowledge and contributing to the greater good. Over time, for many, this idealism fades and is replaced with job dissatisfaction and bitterness. This study uses intersectionality as a theoretical frame to explore faculty identity development by examining the ways academic socialization into a competitive, hierarchical system privileges certain aspects of an individual's identity while imperiling others. In presenting data based on hour-long qualitative interviews with six mid-career university faculty members in the social sciences or humanities, the specific mechanisms that trigger this change are revealed. These lost dimensions may be the very source of academic renewal, pluralistic integration, and personal gratification.
Pages
91
Recommended Citation
Camfield, Eileen Kogl. (2012). Forced options : faculty identity development and institutional culture. University of the Pacific, Thesis. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/814
