Overview
This book is a """"career guide"""" that will help readers explore job paths and positions that are established, emerging, and potential in the world of professional gerontology.The book intertwines career position profiles with interviews with individuals who currently hold some of the positions. 68 profiles cover 100 different career positions and the author suggests an additional 132 career positions that are possible in outside disciplines (e.g., anthropology, history, philosophy); professional fields (actuary, clothing and textiles, journalism, t heater); emerging subfields (entrepreneurial gerontology and religious/spiritual gerontology); or are based on aging-related issues (elder abuse); exercise and fitness; intimacy and sexuality; and substance abuse. It has a wide array of disciplines and professional fields represented. It also has an inclusion of relevant organizations and web sites for follow-up. It includes an extensive glossary, and is based on an academic course the author has taught for many years.
Full Product Details
Author: C. Joanne Grabinski
Publisher: Springer Publishing Co Inc
Imprint: Springer Publishing Co Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.326kg
ISBN: 9780826115065
ISBN 10: 0826115063
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 27 August 2007
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.
Author Information
C. Joanne Grabinski, MA, MA, ABD, is President/Educator & Consultant of AgeEd, in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan; Lecturer (1992-current), Gerontology Program at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan; and Adjunct Professor (1998-current) at Saint Joseph College in West Hartford, Connecticut. She was Director and Assistant Professor (1984-1991), Interdisciplinary Gerontology Program at Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. She holds a BS degree in Home Economics Education from Oregon State University, MA degrees in Educational Administration: Community Leadership and in Family Relations from Central Michigan University, and completed doctoral work (ABD) in Family Ecology: Adult Development & Aging, with cognates in Gerontology and Sociology, at Michigan State University. Grabinski is the curriculum designer/professor of the first Introduction to Careers in Gerontology course in the United States. She has been actively involved in the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE) for the past 27 years, serving on committees for both and as an elected member of the AGHE Executive Board, and is a long-standing member of the American Society on Aging. Grabinski is an AGHE Fellow in Gerontology and Geriatrics Education (awarded 1999), was an AGHE Distinguished Teacher (1997) and received an AGHE Part-Time Faculty Certificate of Recognition (2004).
