Academic diary : : or why higher education still matters / / Les Back.
Sharp and witty observations of academic life that range from the local to the global, from PowerPoint to the halls of power. Is a university education still relevant? What are the forces that threaten it? Should academics ever be allowed near Twitter? In Academic Diary, Les Back has chronicled thre...
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| Superior document: | Goldsmiths Press |
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| Place / Publishing House: | London, [England] : : Goldsmiths Press,, 2016. Cambridge, Massachusetts : : The MIT Press,, [date of distribution not identified] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Goldsmiths Press
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (273 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction: Academic Time
- Autumn Term
- 10 September: Graduation
- 15 September: Everyone Has a Teacher Story
- 17 September: Letter to a New Student
- 20 September: Welcome Week
- 25 September: Goldsmiths and its District
- 27 September: Ratology
- 28 September: Students Not Suspects
- 7 October: Open Day
- 12 October: Stuart Hall Lessons
- 25 October: Teaching
- 31 October: The Uses of Literacy Today
- 5 November: Death by PowerPoint
- 8 November: The Value in Academic Writing
- 20 November: Research Expenses
- 27 November: Extra Curricular
- 29 November: College Green
- 3 December: Meeting John Berger
- 9 December: An Education of Sorts
- 10 December: Class Mobility
- 17 December: Bourdieu Behind Bars
- 29 December: New Year's Honours
- Spring Term
- 10 January: The Diary Disease
- 16 January: Remembering Paul
- 18 January: Recognition
- 25 January: Holding the Fort
- 5 February: Academic Uses and Abuses of Twitter
- 12 February: Generosity as a Strategy for Survival
- 26 February: Professionals and Amateurs
- 7 March: Reading and Remembering
- 10 March: Campus Watch
- 15 March: Writing Routines and the Torture of Starting
- 21 March: That Special Pen
- 1 April: Viral Warning
- 10 April: Ivory Towers
- 16 April: Conference Etiquette
- 19 April: Academic Rights
- 20 April: Casts of Minds
- 27 April: The Devil You Know
- 2 May: Supervision
- 9 May: Thinking Together
- 16 May: The Doublethink of Open Access
- 20 May: Against Intellectual Suicide
- The Summer
- 7 June: Silence Please - Exam in Progress
- 9 June: The Exam Board
- 14 June: On the Occasion of Retirement
- 20 June: The Writer's Desk
- 30 June: The Library Angel
- 4 July: The PhD Viva
- 17 July: Writing and Scholastic Style
- 24 July: 'And What Do You Do for a Living . . .?'
- 19 August: Primo Levi's House.
- 31 August: Lost Notebook
- Afterword:How the Diary Came to Be Written in the First Place
- Tips, Leads and Follow-Ups
- Universities in changing times
- Campus fictions
- Students, learning and teaching
- On writing and writers
- Intellectual life and its purpose
- Heroes and heroines
- Music as a hinterland.