Meaningful Work When Work Won't Love You Back: Sociological Imagination and Reflective Teaching Practice

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Autore principale: Andrea Baer
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contents Meaningful Work When Work Won't Love You Back: Sociological Imagination and Reflective Teaching Practice Andrea Baer Library Instruction Work Attitudes Job Satisfaction Professional Autonomy Librarians Academic Libraries Teacher Role Librarian Attitudes Attitude Change Stress Variables Imagination Sociology This essay explores the tension between pursuing meaningful work in instruction librarianship and the realities of working in a society in which many jobs provide little fulfillment or pleasure, or, as the journalist Sarah Jaffe puts it, "Work won't love you back." Drawing on a recent conference keynote by Anne Helen Petersen, C. Wright Mills's conception of sociological imagination, and an ecological model of teacher agency, I propose that one way librarians can sustain their teaching practices and preserve their well-being is by actively investigating how social structures and relationships influence their teaching roles.
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spellingShingle Meaningful Work When Work Won't Love You Back: Sociological Imagination and Reflective Teaching Practice
Andrea Baer
Library Instruction
Work Attitudes
Job Satisfaction
Professional Autonomy
Librarians
Academic Libraries
Teacher Role
Librarian Attitudes
Attitude Change
Stress Variables
Imagination
Sociology
Meaningful Work When Work Won't Love You Back: Sociological Imagination and Reflective Teaching Practice Andrea Baer Library Instruction Work Attitudes Job Satisfaction Professional Autonomy Librarians Academic Libraries Teacher Role Librarian Attitudes Attitude Change Stress Variables Imagination Sociology This essay explores the tension between pursuing meaningful work in instruction librarianship and the realities of working in a society in which many jobs provide little fulfillment or pleasure, or, as the journalist Sarah Jaffe puts it, "Work won't love you back." Drawing on a recent conference keynote by Anne Helen Petersen, C. Wright Mills's conception of sociological imagination, and an ecological model of teacher agency, I propose that one way librarians can sustain their teaching practices and preserve their well-being is by actively investigating how social structures and relationships influence their teaching roles.
title Meaningful Work When Work Won't Love You Back: Sociological Imagination and Reflective Teaching Practice
topic Library Instruction
Work Attitudes
Job Satisfaction
Professional Autonomy
Librarians
Academic Libraries
Teacher Role
Librarian Attitudes
Attitude Change
Stress Variables
Imagination
Sociology
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1412317