{"id":382,"date":"2012-10-15T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T06:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/?p=382"},"modified":"2012-09-26T07:51:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T05:51:00","slug":"making-a-life-leslie-swartz-and-his-roles-in-teaching-researching-and-community-involvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/2012\/10\/15\/making-a-life-leslie-swartz-and-his-roles-in-teaching-researching-and-community-involvement\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Making a Life\u2019: Leslie Swartz and his Roles in Teaching, Researching and Community Involvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_404\" style=\"width: 141px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/files\/2012\/08\/LeslieSwartz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-404\" class=\"size-full wp-image-404\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 2px;\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/files\/2012\/08\/LeslieSwartz.jpg\" alt=\"Prof Leslie Swartz\" width=\"131\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-404\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy of Christine Fourie<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201c\u2026it\u2019s a huge privilege [working as an academic], I feel so lucky and people who work at institutions like ours are lucky, lucky. Yes, I complain but I don\u2019t like it when I hear people moaning and complaining and feeling hard done by. I want to say \u2018Then go and find another job. Where basically you can do what you love to do; come and go just as you please; be exposed to young people all the time; have technology just provided for you! Find another job like that!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In this brief,\u00a0<strong>Professor Leslie Swartz of the Department of Psychology<\/strong>\u00a0is interviewed by Dr Catherine Kell,\u00a0a researcher commissioned by the CTL. Download the full interview with Professor Swartz\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/files\/2012\/08\/Leslie-Swarz-Teaching-Brief1.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fourth brief in the Centre for Teaching and Learning or CTL\u2019s \u2018Making a life\u2019 series, where we explore the experiences and attitudes of academics at SU, with regard to their roles in teaching, research and what is generally called \u2018community involvement\u2019. The series was approached as a set of interviews with individual academics which took the form of reflective conversations between a CTL researcher and the individual academic. Academics approached for the interviews were not sampled, but drawn from different departments and different disciplines, and tended to be those who had had some involvement with CTL. At times we have incorporated other texts into the brief, to enrich the sense of the activities academics engage in, in \u2018making a life\u2019.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-382 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='382' data-nonce='d9facd851b' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-382 lc'>+18<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-382 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='382' data-nonce='d9facd851b' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-382 unlc'>-15<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-382 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026it\u2019s a huge privilege [working as an academic], I feel so lucky and people who work at institutions like ours are lucky, lucky. Yes, I complain but I don\u2019t like it when I hear people moaning and complaining and feeling hard done by. I want to say \u2018Then go and find another job. Where basically <a href='https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/2012\/10\/15\/making-a-life-leslie-swartz-and-his-roles-in-teaching-researching-and-community-involvement\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12946,29683,22732,1203],"tags":[29690,29689,635],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-case-studies","category-ctl-specific","category-interview","category-lecturers","tag-leslie-swartz","tag-making-a-life","tag-psychology","category-12946-id","category-29683-id","category-22732-id","category-1203-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}