Maggie Berg, Barbara K Seeber

Gebundenes Buch

The Slow Professor

Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy, Tenth Anniversary Edition

Beschreibung

A decade after its initial release, The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy returns with an expanded anniversary edition that both reaffirms and reignites its call to resist the corporatization of academic life. 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. Building on their original groundbreaking work, the authors offer fresh insights and reflections on the evolving landscape of higher education, while thoughtfully responding to critiques of Slow principles. This edition includes the full original text, a foreword by Stefan Collini, a new introduction, and sixteen contributions from academics and professionals across disciplines, institutions, and career stages. The contributors share personal observations on how The Slow Professor has influenced their teaching, research, and practices over the past ten years, adding nuance, insight, and practical examples to the ongoing relevance of the Slow movement within academic life. As pressures of corporatization and efficiency continue to intensify, this anniversary edition reemphasizes the urgent need to confront and counter the culture of speed and promote more sustainable, meaningful ways of working. The Slow Professor, Tenth Anniversary Edition is a must-read for new and returning readers in academia concerned about the frantic pace of contemporary university life.

Autor

Maggie Berg is Emeritus Professor of English at Queen’s University. She has published, and continues to write, on the novels of the Brontë sisters. She won five teaching awards during her career at Queen’s 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 25mm
• ISBN-13: 9781487559465
• ISBN-10: 1487559461
• Artikelnr.: 74859905