この本が読みたいです。
The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy, by Maggie Berg and Barbara Seeber (University of Toronto Press, 2016); 128 Pages.
大学教育に携わる方、関心のある方であるならば、面白いかもしれません。まだ読んでいませんので自信を持ってお勧めすることはできませんが、うなずきながら読みそうな本です。
なぜそう思うかと言うと、アメリカのナショナル・パブリック・ラジオの記事 “Resisting The Corporate University: What It Means To Be A ‘Slow Professor’” を読んだからです。
興味のある方、どうぞ、NPRの記事をお読みください。
＊＊＊
Preface
Introduction
1. Time Management and Timelessness
2. Pedagogy and Pleasure
3. Research and Understanding
4. Collegiality and Community
Conclusion: Collaboration and Working Together
If there is one sector of society that should be cultivating deep thought in itself and others, it is academia. Yet the corporatisation of the contemporary university has sped up the clock, demanding increased speed and efficiency from faculty regardless of the consequences for education and scholarship.
In The Slow Professor, Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber discuss how adopting the principles of the Slow movement in academic life can counter this erosion of humanistic education. Focusing on the individual faculty member and his or her own professional practice, Berg and Seeber present both an analysis of the culture of speed in the academy and ways of alleviating stress while improving teaching, research, and collegiality. The Slow Professor will be a must-read for anyone in academia concerned about the frantic pace of contemporary university life.
The Slow Professorについてのコメント
I love this book. Mentors should give it to newly hired faculty members. Advisors should buy it for their graduating PhDs. Individual faculty should read it to reclaim some of their sanity.
–Nancy Chick, University Chair in Teaching and Learning and Academic Director of the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, University of CalgaryI read this book with the intensity and engagement that I read a novel. It’s a fresh and insightful study that reaches out to readers with wisdom as well as information.
–Teresa Mangum, Director of the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, University of IowaWhile The Slow Professor has already raised some eyebrows as an example of “tenured privilege,” it’s at once an important addition and possible antidote to the growing literature on the corporatization of the university.
–Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Education, April 19, 2016
The Slow Professorの著者について
Maggie Berg is a professor in the Department of English at Queen’s University. A winner of the Chancellor A. Charles Baillie Award for Teaching Excellence, she held the Queen’s Chair of Teaching and Learning from 2009 to 2012.
Barbara K. Seeber is a professor in the Department of English at Brock University. She received the Brock Faculty of Humanities Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014.
