Recent release "Teaching on Borrowed Time: An Adjunct's Memoir" from Page Publishing author Laurence C. Schwartz guides readers through the author's thirty-plus years of teaching part-time as an adjunct lecturer on the university circuit. Always unpredictable and with little job security, Schwartz's journey takes him to twenty different colleges and twenty-three different subjects, giving voice to all those who stubbornly forge ahead in their careers rising to any occasion for the sheer joy of the work.
NEW YORK, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Laurence C. Schwartz, who currently teaches speech communications and film at Mercy College, has completed his new book "Teaching on Borrowed Time: An Adjunct's Memoir": an engagingly edgy work that highlights Schwartz's campus-trotting travels through the academic establishment.
Ever the outsider, Schwartz chronicles the highs, lows, and in-betweens of teaching at public universities, private universities, four-year colleges, community colleges, sectarian colleges, a New York City high school, inner-city campuses, suburban campuses, and elite New England private academies. In addition to his consistently precarious livelihood as an adjunct, Schwartz directs, writes, and acts in the New York theater scene.
Schwartz writes of his commute from Manhattan to teach at Bergen Community College in Paramus, "The first stop in Weehawken was Marginal and Pleasant. At 6:10 in the morning, I was not quite pleasant, but I could certainly feel on the margins of the mainstream workforce." Of his lecture on the Dance, Schwartz recalls, "From hootenanny, I segued to hokum in my introduction to the can-can. The students dug it. I proceeded to the jazz dance and emphasized its African origin. I screened the scene in Saturday Night Fever wherein John Travolta's Tony Manero pulled out his bag of tricks in his solo on the disco dance floor. I noted the contrast in his improvisation to the precise choreography called for in ballet." And of his lecture on World Music, he writes, "… after taking this class, the students knew the Grateful Dead and Brahms's "Isle of the Dead."
Schwartz's memoir sheds new light on academia and often has the feel of a road film with its restless protagonist breaking through to self-discoveries as he embraces different cultures and a wide-range of student populations.
Published by Page Publishing, Laurence C. Schwartz's illuminating work gives voice to the adjunct community as well as those who stubbornly forge ahead in their professional quests for the sheer joy of the work.
Readers who wish to experience this original work can purchase "Teaching on Borrowed Time: An Adjunct's Memoir" at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iTunes Store, Amazon, Google Play, or Barnes and Noble.
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