Inviting the "Outsiders" In: Local Efforts to Improve Adjunct Working Conditions.
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Author(s): Schreyer, Jessica
An adjunct turned writing program administrator reflects on her professional journey and describes efforts to improve the teaching environment amongst composition faculty--primarily part-time--within her department. Based on a local program review, a pilot faculty relations plan was implemented that addressed two major areas: offering more professional development opportunities and creating improved communication across the composition faculty. Interviews and surveys conducted with the faculty emerged affective themes that demonstrated adjunct faculty indeed felt more valued in their roles during and after the plan's implementation, while some remained uncertain about their job stability and place within the university. The author concludes that by attending to the professional needs of adjuncts and heightening awareness around the challenge of contingency labor in teaching, universities and departments can tap into the deep reservoirs of knowledge and experience adjuncts bring to their teaching and build positive futures for basic writing professionals while working for institutional change.
ERIC Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty; Writing Teachers; Writing Instruction; Basic Writing; Writing (Composition); Professional Development; Work Environment; College Faculty; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher Participation; Educational Planning; Professional Autonomy; Teaching Experience
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Source: Journal of Basic Writing
ERIC Citation: v31 n2 p83-102 Fall 2012
ERIC Number: EJ1053241
Peer reviewed
Record Type: Journal
Pages: 20
Abstractor: As Provided
ISSN: ISSN-0147-1635
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Author: | Schreyer, Jessica |
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Publication: | Journal of Basic Writing |
Article Type: | Report |
Geographic Code: | 1USA |
Date: | Sep 22, 2012 |
Words: | 353 |
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