Here we go...

Day O

I start this blog as a personal tool to record my journey into this field work Ph.D. experience. I am almost in the middle of my 4 years experience, and I should have started doing this long before, probably since day 1, but if you know me, this is me, lots of ideas, lack of will to implement 99% of them.

Today, 12 of September, I start this. The idea is simple to record all the little mile-stones during this field work and if my motivation is strong enough I will continue to the day I die, so its gonna be at least 2 years and potentially 26 years more.

I am doing this in English, partially to reach a wider audience, even though nobody will read this probably ever. However, I am doing this mainly to keep my English writing at a mediocre (mediocre mean medium) level, which it has been a major challenge to me and the poor English speaker people around me. 

As a Day Zero, introduction kind of thing, I am reminding me and everybody about what is this research about. Its title is 'The Headship through the Eyes of Time' (pretty cool-poetic I know). In a nutshell, the study is about the career of head teachers, but comparing Boomers (above 53 years old), GenXs (52 to 38) and Millennials (37 to 20). Accordingly, I am drawing from the field of educational leadership with the work of Headteachers; sociology and the ideas of generational theory; and work with the ideas of careers. 

My leading assumption is that individuals from different generation will address work and careers differently. Building on the ideas of career theory we know that workers are building careers characterized by mobility, seeking learning, challenge and improvement, above stability, security and financial rewards. 

On top of that, generational theory suggests that younger generations are seeking different things in life and work. It appears to b that in contrast to GenX are seeking a job that allows a workllife balance and lead to stardom. On the other hand, Millennials are drawn to meaningful contributions and emotionally engaging situations.    

Finally, from the educational leadership arena, we know that there is a rising problem to recruit and maintain school leaders. Therefore in many countries, there is an interest to improve the school leader career.

So adding all up, my initial assumption as described above, is that Boomer's Head have a very different expectation of the Headship than GenXs and Millennials, however probably the job was and it is still designed only for the needs of the first cohort. Boomers now in Chile are the most populated group in the headship of the municipal funded schools in Chile, however the numbers are multiplying for GenXs and Millenials each year (I will add a lot of data and tables and graphs in the future)

Being a SCI-FI Junky, my favorite topic is Time. That's the reason for the URL, 'Tardisaround' in the honor (or honour??), of the powerful time machine of Doctor Who. Having a shirt, jumper, bag, and Tattoo of Doctor Who, is it extremely coherent to have this blog under that name and making  4 year research on this topic.

Hope I do not drop the ball with this one.