Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal Pope-Ruark Rebecca
Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal Pope-Ruark Rebecca A timely book about assessing, coping with, and mitigating burnout in higher education.Faculty often talk about how…
Specifikacia Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal Pope-Ruark Rebecca
Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal Pope-Ruark Rebecca
A timely book about assessing, coping with, and mitigating burnout in higher education.Faculty often talk about how busy, overwhelmed, and stressed they are. But for many women in higher education, exhaustion and stress go far deeper than end-of-the-semester malaise.Burnout, a mental health syndrome caused by chronic workplace stress, is endemic to higher education in a patriarchal, productivity-obsessed culture. These qualities are seen as badges of honor in a capitalist culture that values productivity above all else.
Pope-Ruark lays out four pillars of In this unique book for women in higher education, Rebecca Pope-Ruark, PhD, draws from her own burnout experience, as well as collected stories of faculty in various roles and career stages, interviews with coaches and educational developers, and extensive secondary research to address and mitigate burnout.