The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy

by Barbara Seeber, Maggie Berg, Barbara K. Seeber Maggie Berg

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442645563
• ISBN13: 9781442645561
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.6"