Dr. Hochschild's Teaching

In the course of her teaching at the University of California, at Berkeley Arlie Hochschild has received two awards for her teaching abilities there. They are: Distinguished Teaching Award for the Division of Social Sciences 2000-2001, University of California at Berkeley (August 2001). This award is to recognize the ability of some teachers to go above and beyond the call of duty and inspire. “Such teaching rises above good teaching: it incites intellectual curiosity in students, engages them thoroughly in the enterprise of learning, and has a life-long impact.” (http://teaching.berkeley.edu/dta.html).
In a recent interview, Dr. Hochschild commented on her career as a teacher and referred to teaching as “…has been for me a calling; it’s not a job.” (http://www.genderonline.cz/view.php?cisloclanku=2007010610). It is nice to see those professors that like to teach and are proud of what they are teaching and want to actually teach it and get their knowledge out there. Dr. Hochschild is one of these professors that truly enjoys what she does and desire to teach other about her findings and spread her knowledge around. In the same interview Hochschild comments on Nancy Chodorow’s writings, saying that they are great and that although much of her work, Hochschild’s work, is not ”psychoanalytic in the sense that [Chodorow’s] work is,” Hocschild desire to one day develop that area of her writings as well. (http://www.genderonline.cz/view.php?cisloclanku=2007010610).