Ruth Barcan

Academic Life and Labour in the New University (eBook, PDF)

Hope and Other Choices

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

What does it mean to be an academic today? What kinds of experiences do students have, and how are they affected by what they learn? Why do so many students and their teachers feel like frauds? Can we learn to teach and research in ways that foster hope and deflate pretension? Academic Life and Labour in the New University: Hope and Other Choices addresses these big questions, discussing the challenges of teaching and researching in the contemporary university, the purpose of research and its fundamental value, and the role of the academy against the background of major changes to nature of the university itself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317185956
• Artikelnr.: 44871378

Autorenporträt

Ruth Barcan is a senior lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the author of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Bodies, Therapies, Senses (2011), and Nudity: A Cultural Anatomy (2004). She is also co-editor of Imagining Australian Space: Cultural Studies and Spatial Inquiry (1999), and Planet Diana: Cultural Studies and Global Mourning (1997).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: private feelings, public contexts
The big shifts: massification, marketization and their consequences
The wellbeing of academics in the palimpsestic university
Pluralism and its discontents: teaching critical theory and the politics of hope
The idleness of academics: hopeful reflections on the usefulness of cultural studies
Feeling like a fraud: or, the upside of knowing you can never be good enough
Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix
Index.