Keywords; : : For Further Consideration and Particularly Relevant to Academic Life, &c. / / A Community of Inquiry; ed. by D. Graham Burnett, Matthew Rickard, Jessica Terekhov.
An irreverent critical lexicon of academic life and cultureThe 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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (114 p.) :; 10 b/w illus. |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Keywords -- INTRODUCTION -- ACADEMIA -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CANON -- DEPARTMENT -- EDUCATION -- FIELD -- GENRE -- HISTORY -- INTELLECTUAL LABOR -- KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION -- MEDIUM -- NEW CRITICISM -- OBJECT -- PEER REVIEW -- READING -- SCHOOL -- TEACHING -- UNIVERSITY -- VOCATION |
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Summary: | An irreverent critical lexicon of academic life and cultureThe 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781400890026 9783110604252 9783110603255 9783110604184 9783110603187 9783110606591 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781400890026?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | A Community of Inquiry; ed. by D. Graham Burnett, Matthew Rickard, Jessica Terekhov. |