Academic diary or why higher education still matters
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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge
The MIT Press
2016
London, [England] : 2016. |
| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Goldsmiths Press
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009654261806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
