Work-Life Balance and Educational Leadership Faculty: Themes and Strategies

• In Event: Poster Session 7
  In Poster Session: Division J Section 4 Poster Session 1

Abstract

This paper describes key themes about work-life balance from the lives of educational leadership faculty, based on analysis of auto-ethnographic essays. Participants were 41 higher education faculty from 33 institutions across the country, representing diverse types of institutions and career points and diverse demographic and family configurations. The topic of work and life balance, or lack thereof, is particularly relevant to this year’s AERA theme of “ Public Scholarship to Educate Diverse Democracies” as it, in accordance with Dewey’s work raises “awareness of social problems and foster a democratic and public solving of those problems.” Work-life balance is an issue not only for higher education faculty, but also for every worker, whatever their field, type of employment, or family status.

Authors

• Joanne M. Marshall, Iowa State University

• Karen Stansberry Beard, The Ohio State University - Columbus

• Agustina Veny Purnamasari, Iowa State University