Joe,
My major undergraduate professor is also beginning to ponder retirement,
and as much as I would hate to see her leave the field (and in fact I think
it's debateable whether one can ever really leave the field), deep down
inside my selfish self, I can't help but think she owes it to me and all the
other young scholars she trained and touched to produce some sort of tome
characterizing her perspectives on the field of psychology from her start to
her finish. What I want to know about are all the things she would never
say aloud while she was still in the business, but that I felt she was
thinking nevertheless: about the field, about science, about publishing,
about various theories and theorists in her specialty area, and even about
the functioning of psychology departments.
I think the reflections of our senior scientists are among the most
valuable insights that can be shared with the field of psychology for so
many reasons. So even if it doesn't result in a psychological revolution,
Joe, your characterization of the field of psychology from your start to
your finish would perhaps be the greatest gift you could bequeath to your
students, your colleagues, and your science. And it would be the kind of
scholarship that I would adopt in a second for my history of psychology
courses.
Well, I doubt my suggestion represents the wisdom you were looking for,
but the wisdom and guidance of our senior scientists is always what I'm
looking for.
Regards,
Wally Dixon
East Tennessee State University
Johnson City, TN 37604
on 7/24/03 10:19 PM, Hatcher, Joe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Tipsters,
> ����� I am need of some wisdom, and I already know there is little reason to
>
> try to come up with any on my own, there being so much out there in
> Tipsterland.�� I'm, oh, ten to fifteen years away from retirement, and it
> seems to me that it would be reasonable to try to think in terms of a ten
> year plan in which I try to leave the College (or the field) with something,
>
> instead of just playing out the string.�� I know it's common to *start*
> one's career with some sort of a plan, but are those of you out there who
> have *ended* yours with one as well?� How does one's thinking change as one
> nears the R time?� I'd be curious, and I suspect others would be too...
>
> Joe Hatcher
> Ripon College
> Ripon, WI 54971
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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