Motherhood and Community College Faculty: Exploring Perception and Practice

Autor/in	Gallagher, Danamarie Every
Titel	Motherhood and Community College Faculty: Exploring Perception and Practice
Quelle	(2018), (127 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit Ed.D. Dissertation, Widener University
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-0-4381-9088-7
Schlagwörter	Hochschulschrift; Dissertation; Community Colleges; College Faculty; Mothers; Family Work Relationship; Phenomenology; Females; Women Faculty; Tenure; Career Development; Self Concept; Professional Identity; Teacher Attitudes; Work Environment; Pregnancy; Age Differences; Nutrition; Young Children; Child Rearing + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Thesis; Dissertations; Academic thesis; Community college; Community College; Fakultät; Mother; Mutter; Phenomenological psychology; Phänomenologie; Psychologie; Weibliches Geschlecht; Frauenakademie; Weibliche Gelehrte; Amtszeit; Beschäftigungsdauer; Berufsentwicklung; Selbstkonzept; Lehrerverhalten; Arbeitsmilieu; Schwangerschaft; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Ernährung; Frühe Kindheit; Kindererziehung
Abstract	This study used a phenomenological research approach to examine the essence of what it means to be a full-time professor at a community college while also being a mother of young children. Of specific note to this research are two occurrences. First, women are earning more graduate degrees and entering the professoriate at higher rates than previously experienced. Second, community colleges have more women students, faculty and administrators than four-year institutions. At both two and four-year institutions, the age at which most academics reach a significant career step, ages 30 to 40, corresponds with the time when many women choose to have children. Existing scholarly research on the intersection of motherhood and academe revealed themes of delay of childbearing until after tenure and institutional policies that, if enacted, were of little use or potentially harmful to career progression (Mason, Wolfinger & Goulden, 2013). Research regarding women's layered identities as mother and academic revealed role conflict issues that were exacerbated by an organizational structure predicated on the male life course model that assumed a stay-at-home caregiver (Kawash, 2011; Wolfinger, Mason, & Goulden, 2008; Wolfinger, Mason, & Goulden, 2009). Further, little motherhood research addressed full-time faculty members at community colleges. When community college faculty members were studied, the claims were community colleges provided a better work/life balance than other institution types. This research examined those claims and revealed six themes: timing of pregnancy, policy confusion or inconsistency, supportive colleagues and/or administrator, schedule considerations and concerns, breastfeeding accommodation, and opportunities passed up. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.] (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01