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their careers for their children. At first, I kept this dissonance to myself, because I had built a life based on compliance. Living an authentic life of learning and contribution bumped up against the messages that had been shaping my choices for years. I was reading different authors and learning more
K. P. Zepeda and E. Mayock (eds.), Forging a Rewarding Career in the Humanities, 161–167. © 2014 Sense Publishers. All rights reserved. CHRISTA BUCKLIN FINDING FULFILMENT THROUGH SELF, PURPOSE AND COMMUNITY I am currently in a period of transition. I am uprooting my life and moving to a new
underperforming student. I was living in Montreal, Quebec, Canada at the time when CEGEP s—a French term Collège d’enseignement general et professionnel—which means general and professional teaching college, were being developed as part of public schooling. They provided the first level of post
M. E. Menon et al. (eds.), Using Data to Improve Higher Education, 93–118. © 2014 Sense Publishers. All rights reserved. EUGÉNIA PEDRO, HELENA ALVES AND JOÃO LEITÃO EVALUATING STUDENTS’ QUALITY OF ACADEMIC LIFE Using Data in a Structural Model Approach INTRODUCTION In a context of
transform such knowledge into practical and ethical action. – A liberal arts and sciences education enhances their personal development as well as their academic and career development, and provides them with a range of skills that they will be able to use throughout their life. – In addition, the
in my life. […] to work with deadlines and motivate myself. (Neil) This section illustrated how doctoral students searched for both non-academic and academic-related support from different members of their families. The absence of such support led to a more challenging doctoral experience. Non
competency and confidence to be an independent researcher and a prospective knowledge creator. I can now be a motivator whose experiences and reflections motivate other young lecturers to be potential researchers and knowledge creators like my own supervisors
by offering its various resources and educational opportunities to the local community – to sum up by paraphrasing Benjamin Barber (1996), by being a 'good neighbour' that cares about and supports the improvement of (civic) life in local communities. The idea of civic mission and university
this important point when I am talking about Asian traditions. At this point I want to emphasize that the implementation of the copy right law in China was mainly an act motivated by international pressure6 and that the implementation in Japan was a minimal concession to internationalization.7 We
experience of life, living of itself, offers signs, signposts, and directions for our actions. A person can perceive the prompts; the signs are there. One may or may not heed. A love of language urges me to interpret, and a commitment to hope drives interpretation. Stewardship can be one’s calling as an