This award-winning memoir delves into the author's personal journey, exploring themes of resilience, faith, and transformation. Through poignant storytelling, it captures moments of struggle and triumph, offering readers a deep and relatable insight into the human experience. The narrative is rich with emotional depth, inviting reflection and connection, making it a compelling read for anyone seeking inspiration and understanding.
The Personal in the Professional
Focusing on academic identity development, the book addresses the challenges posed by neoliberalism in modern universities. It combines personal narratives with educational literature to advocate for a culturally aware approach to career growth. By encouraging scholars to reflect on their values and experiences, it promotes a proactive stance in shaping fulfilling academic identities and career paths, urging them to prioritize personal significance over external pressures in academia.
Focusing on the challenges of doctoral writing, this book provides a fresh perspective for Ph.D. students and their supervisors. It emphasizes reflection on lived experiences rather than a traditional how-to format, making it more engaging and practical. Through bite-sized vignettes and actionable accounts, it explores research writing practices. Originating from a popular academic blog with a strong following, the book is curated by its editors to offer accessible insights and support for the dissertation process.
Focusing on the dynamics of bullying in schools, this book examines both foundational and contemporary research surrounding childhood risk factors, legal implications, and the impact of cyberbullying. It also explores the connections between bullying behavior and mental health issues. By integrating these insights, the text proposes effective preventative strategies aimed at addressing and mitigating bullying in educational environments.
The book addresses the challenges faced by seniors, including the frustration of managing numerous medical appointments that frequently get cancelled, navigating technology, and feeling overlooked by society. It highlights the unique experiences of aging, offering insights and encouragement for seniors to reclaim their voice and agency in a world that often neglects their needs.
Queer community sports leagues, by their sheer numbers, are changing the energy and space of school gyms and community recreational spaces. Some leagues are well-established - having been in existence for over twenty-five years - whereas others are relatively new, but their collective presence tell stories about the shifting dynamics of queer communities in Canada. Who's Coming Out to Play considers the potential of queer community sports to disrupt notions of the embodiment of gender and community, with an awareness of numerous factors that limit this potential. Exploring queer teams and leagues of varying sizes and from various locations, this book focuses on leagues that have previously identified as women's or lesbian and are now becoming trans and genderqueer inclusive. Queer community leagues are based in a commitment to community building, prioritizing fun, socializing, and inclusivity over competition or winning. As a result of these commitments, these spaces and the people who come to play in them reflect new ways of being in and with bodies, different ways of embodying gender, and new or different forms of engagement - notably different "rules of play" - within sporting arenas. Who's Coming Out to Play paints a vivid picture of the lived experiences of queer bodies in queer sporting spaces, exploring both the possibilities and the continued problems they face.
This compact book is designed to guide new scholarly (co)editors through the complex journey of editing. It provides considered and detailed advice on the less well-known scholarly practices and the processes, challenges and rewards of this work, throughout the process from start to finish, with a focus on ensuring successful outcomes.