Keywords: For Further Consideration and Particularly Relevant to Academic Life - Couverture souple

A Community Of Inquiry

 
9780691181837: Keywords: For Further Consideration and Particularly Relevant to Academic Life
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ISBN 10 : 0691181837 ISBN 13 : 9780691181837
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2018

Synopsis

An irreverent critical lexicon of academic life and culture

The university: The very name evokes knowledge, culture, and the magnificently universal ambition at the heart of this essential institution. Bastions of free inquiry and a free society, engines of social transformation and economic progress, enclosed gardens of ennobling reflection and creation, universities encompass the wisdom of the past and the hope of the future. Or do they?

This critical glossary--written by a group of Princeton graduate students and faculty--defines fifty-eight terms common to academic life in a style that will prick both egos and consciences. From "academia" to "vocation," "canon" to "peer review," "discipline" to "methodology," the book scrutinizes the often stultifying structures of modern disciplinary life, calls out a slavish devotion to "knowledge production" as the enemy of thought, and even dissects the notion of "academic excellence."

Feisty and darkly funny, passionate and deeply insightful, this book raises hard questions about teaching, research, theory, practice, and academic labor. The result is a must-read dispatch from today's academic trenches--one that is sure to provoke discussion and debate.

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À propos de l'auteur

A Community of Inquiry is made up of ten students and faculty associated with the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities at Princeton University.

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691181837
ISBN 13 
9780691181837
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
114
Éditeur
Burnett D. Graham, Rickard Matthew, Terekhov Jessica
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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