The Slow Professor
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The Slow Professor
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In The Slow Professor, Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber discuss how adopting the principles of the Slow movement in academic life can counter the erosion of humanistic education.
"Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber's The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy (University of Toronto Press) is a much-discussed manifesto that has launched a vitally needed conversation on the importance - and pleasures - of protecting open enquiry from the frantic pace of the modern academic assembly line." -- Susan Prentice, Professor of Sociology, University of Manitoba Times Higher Education, Books of the Year 2016 "The Slow Professor has a manifesto-like quality. But there are more scholarly insights packed into its slim 90-odd pages than you get in longer academic tomes. A must-read, but do take your time." -- Mike Marinetto, Lecturer in Business Ethics, Cardiff University Times Higher Education, Books of the Year 2016 "I love this book. Mentors should give it to newly hired faculty members. Advisors should buy it for their graduating PhDs. Individual faculty should read it to reclaim some of their sanity." -- Nancy Chick, University Chair in Teaching and Learning and Academic Director of the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, University of Calgary "I read this book with the intensity and engagement that I read a novel. It's a fresh and insightful study that reaches out to readers with wisdom as well as information." -- Teresa Mangum, Director of the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, University of Iowa
If there is one sector of society that should be cultivating deep thought in itself and others, it is academia. Yet the corporatisation of the contemporary university has sped up the clock, demanding increased speed and efficiency from faculty regardless of the consequences for education and scholarship.
In The Slow Professor, Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber discuss how adopting the principles of the Slow movement in academic life can counter this erosion of humanistic education. Focusing on the individual faculty member and his or her own professional practice, Berg and Seeber present both an analysis of the culture of speed in the academy and ways of alleviating stress while improving teaching, research, and collegiality. The Slow Professor will be a must-read for anyone in academia concerned about the frantic pace of contemporary university life.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781442645561
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 28 March 2016
Country: Canada
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 13.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 128
About the Author
Maggie Berg is Emeritus Professor of English at Queenโs University. She has published, and continues to write, on the novels of the Bronte sisters. She won five teaching awards during her career at Queenโs including the W.J. Barnes Award for Teaching Excellence three times, the Chancellor A. Charles Baillie Award for Teaching Excellence, and a University Chair in Teaching and Learning. In recognition of The Slow Professor, she was awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of Mons, Belgium. Barbara K. Seeber is Professor of English at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. She is the author of Jane Austen and Animals as well as General Consent in Jane Austen. Her teaching areas are eighteenth-century literature and animal studies, and she is the recipient of the Brock Faculty of Humanities Award for Excellence in Teaching. Most recently, in recognition of The Slow Professor, she was awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of Mons, Belgium.
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