{"product_id":"understanding-wpa-readiness-and-renewal","title":"Understanding WPA Readiness and Renewal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnderstanding WPA Readiness and Renewal\u003c\/em\u003e examines WPA journeys and journeying.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesigned for WPA graduate seminars and professional development workshops, this book addresses two questions:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e• How do people develop readiness to serve as WPAs?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e• How do experienced WPAs find or create renewal opportunities that help them move forward throughout their lives and careers?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthors 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthors 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 \u003ci\u003ereflect\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ereflect on\u003c\/i\u003e, understudied fears and desires about WPA work from graduate preparation to preparing for leadership rotation and retirement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54223099560280,"sku":"9781433194405","price":51.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781433194405_e1ca066d-0646-4dcf-94b4-597b47836347.jpg?v=1770113709","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/understanding-wpa-readiness-and-renewal","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}