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This invaluable source book offers guidance, support and advice for those contemplating or involved in academic careers. The contributions provide rich, personal, sometimes poignant and often humorous accounts of shared and unique experiences of those in the world of academia.
On Learning why I became a Teacher
On Learning why I became a Teacher
Late on a Tuesday afternoon in October 1977, I finally began to understand why I had become a teacher. Over the course of about 90 minutes that afternoon, more than a dozen years after I stepped onto this career path, it dawned on me that some things about teaching that I had taken for granted—assumptions about what and how I was teaching and, especially, to whom and why—had been (at best) incomplete. In that moment, a student taught me that somebody really did need me to do what I was doing. Her comments seemed to me to justify my journey up to that point, and they triggered a process, still ongoing, ...
