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Sustaining enthusiasm in the classroom: reinvestment strategies that work
Artur Poczwardowski1, Onie Grosshans, Eric Trunnell
1Department of Psychology, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY 13617, USA. arturp@stlawu.edu
Objective:
To identify reinvestment strategies of 11 senior health-education faculty from 3 degree programs.
Methods:
Data from individual, in-depth interviews were inductively analyzed for content.
Results:
The identified strategies grouped around 6 themes: growth and success in work, realization of an optimal fit into profession, investment into interpersonal relationships, focus on stimulating and uplifting experiences, pursuit of professional/personal balance, and problems and coping.
Conclusions:
Reinvestment is a very complex process that may be mediated by frequent experience of positive emotions. Further research needs to employ a positive perspective and investigate variables from different levels of analysis.