The White Rabbit
An Exhortation for Busy Adjunct Teachers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/wap.v5i1.23Keywords:
literacy, teaching, pedagogy, higher educationAbstract
The life of an adjunct is never slow. This essay looks into the professional and personal life of a community college teacher working at multiple colleges who wonders, like many others, how she will hold it all together and provide the quality of teaching that her students deserve.
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