I summarize multidisciplinary paradigms and best practices’ recommendations for professional learning by higher education faculty members. This review leads to an innovative narrative model for academic life that synthesizes current personality and vocational psychology theory and positive psychology’s emphasis on virtues and character strengths as a means to sustain well-being.
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