Not exact matches
What it's like: Ron Owston, dean of the
Faculty of
Education at York University in Toronto, was initially surprised at how much time he spent on human resource issues,
such as dealing with the concerns of
faculty members and mapping out the academic year so professors can handle their course loads.
The majority of responses came from
faculty members in departments
such as Sciences, Engineering, Medicine,
Education and Nursing.
I'm a little pessimistic, because
faculty members come out of graduate schools with a loyalty to a particular field, and it's very hard to get their attention or arouse their passion for larger sets of problems,
such as pedagogy or the reform of theological
education.
To the extent that seminaries imitate what American higher
education expects of
faculty members, they will require that
faculty members be scholar teachers within the parameters of a specialized field,
such as social ethics, or New Testament, or American religious history.
Known for small classes and a focus on undergraduate
education, most
such colleges also require — from their younger, newer
faculty members, at least — substantial research activity.
Specifically, one or more
faculty members who choose to champion physics teacher
education in combination with institutional motivation and commitment can ensure that
such initiatives remain viable.
The group has increasingly focused on the higher
education sector,
such as
faculty members who are incorporating sustainability tenets in their teaching and projects.