Meaningful Work when Work Won’t Love You Back: Sociological Imagination and Reflective Teaching Practice

IF 0.8 4区 管理学 Q3 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE
Andrea Baer
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abstract: 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.
当工作不爱你时,有意义的工作:社会学想象与反思性教学实践
本文探讨了在教学图书馆工作中追求有意义的工作与在一个许多工作几乎没有满足感或乐趣的社会中工作的现实之间的紧张关系,或者,正如记者萨拉·贾菲所说,“工作不会爱你。”根据安妮·海伦·彼得森(Anne Helen Petersen)、c·赖特·米尔斯(C. Wright Mills)的社会学想象概念和教师代理的生态模型,我提出图书馆员维持其教学实践并保持其福祉的一种方法是积极调查社会结构和关系如何影响他们的教学角色。
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Portal-Libraries and the Academy
Portal-Libraries and the Academy INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE-
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