| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 168 pages ): illustrations (black and white |
| Series |
Essays and studies ; 2019, volume 72 |
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Essays and studies (London, England : 1950) ; v. 72.
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| Contents |
Slow collaborations. Introduction: a slow and ongoing collaboration / Catherine E. Karkov ; Research as folly, or, How to productively 'ruin' your research / Lara Eggleton -- Slow words. Translating the order of the world in my own time / ; James Paz Relining the grave: a slow reading of MS Bodley 343, fol. 170r / Chris Jones -- Slow looking. Rethinking slow looking: encounters with Clonmacnoise / Heather Pulliam ; Thinking about stone: an elemental encounter with the Ruthwell Cross / Catherine E. Kark -- Slow manuscripts. Letter by letter: manuscript transcription and historical imagination / Karen Louise Jolly ; Slow digitisation and The battle of the books / Andrew Prescot |
| Summary |
This book offers a response to the culture of metrics, mass digitisation, and accountability (as opposed to responsibility, or citizenship) that has developed in higher education worldwide, as exemplified by the UK's Research Excellence Framework exercise (REF), and the increasing bureaucracy that limits the time available for teaching, research, and even conversation and collaboration. Ironically, these are problems that will be solved only by academics finding the time to talk and to work together. The essays collected here both critique the culture of speed in the neoliberal university and provide examples of what can be achieved by slowing down, by reclaiming research and research priorities, and by working collaboratively across the disciplines to improve conditions. They are informed both by recent research in medieval studies and by the problematic culture of twenty-first century higher education. The contributions offer very personal approaches to the academic culture of the present moment. Some tackle issues of academic freedom head-on; others more obliquely; but they all have been written as declarations of the academic freedom that comes with slow thinking, slow reading, slow writing and slow looking and the demonstrations of its benefits. -- Back cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Civilization, Medieval -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Great Britain
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Learning and scholarship.
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Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives.
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Universities and colleges.
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Slow life movement.
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Neoliberalism.
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Middle Ages -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Middle Ages -- Research
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Universities
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Civilization, Medieval -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives.
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Learning and scholarship.
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Middle Ages -- Research.
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Neoliberalism.
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Slow life movement.
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Universities and colleges.
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Entschleunigung
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Forschung
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Hochschulbildung
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Langsamkeit
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Universität.
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Zeitmangel
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Great Britain.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Karkov, Catherine E., 1956- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781787447042 |
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1787447049 |
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