%0 Book
%A Joseph Janangelo
%A Mark Blaauw-Hara
%D 2023
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9781433194412
%T Understanding WPA Readiness and Renewal
%R 10.3726/b19260
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1294495
%X Understanding WPA Readiness and Renewal examines WPA journeys and journeying. Designed for WPA graduate seminars and professional development workshops, this book addresses two questions: • How do people develop readiness to serve as WPAs? • How do experienced WPAs find or create renewal opportunities that help them move forward throughout their lives and careers? Authors address these questions from their sometimes-intersecting identities as BIPOC scholars, LGBTQ+ people, graduate students, and adjunct faculty, as well as early, mid-, and later-career WPAs. Authors draw on their experience teaching at a range of two- and four-year institutions to analyse the complexities, contingencies, and rewards of short and long-term WPA work. These scholars contend that understanding WPA "readiness" and "renewal" involves questioning inherited definitions of those terms and engaging in theorized, self-aware conversations that reflect, and reflect on, understudied fears and desires about WPA work from graduate preparation to preparing for leadership rotation and retirement.
%K WPA, Readiness, Renewal, DEI, WPA working lives, Understanding WPA Readiness and Renewal, Mark Blaauw-Hara, Joseph Janangelo, antiracism, readiness, renewal, diversity, equity, inclusion, leadership, career trajectories, creativity, writing programs, writing, higher education
%G English