Full Description
A decade after its initial release, The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy returns with an expanded anniversary edition that both reaffirms and reignites its call to resist the corporatization of academic life. In The Slow Professor, Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber discuss how adopting the principles of the Slow movement in academic life can counter the erosion of humanistic education. Building on their original groundbreaking work, the authors offer fresh insights and reflections on the evolving landscape of higher education, while thoughtfully responding to critiques of Slow principles.
This edition includes the full original text, a foreword by Stefan Collini, a new introduction, and sixteen contributions from academics and professionals across disciplines, institutions, and career stages. The contributors share personal observations on how The Slow Professor has influenced their teaching, research, and practices over the past ten years, adding nuance, insight, and practical examples to the ongoing relevance of the Slow movement within academic life.
As pressures of corporatization and efficiency continue to intensify, this anniversary edition reemphasizes the urgent need to confront and counter the culture of speed and promote more sustainable, meaningful ways of working. The Slow Professor, Tenth Anniversary Edition is a must-read for new and returning readers in academia concerned about the frantic pace of contemporary university life.
Contents
Introduction to the Anniversary Edition
Acknowledgements
Part I: The Slow Professor 2016 Edition
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
1. Time Management and Timelessness
2. Pedagogy and Pleasure
3. Research and Understanding
4. Collegiality and Community
Conclusion: Collaboration and Thinking Together
Acknowledgments
Works Cited
Index
Part II: Slow Resets
The Application of Slow Principles: The Musings of a Social Work Academic
Andrew Mantulak
Slow is More: Teaching and Learning Collaboratively
Lynn Yau
Reclaiming the University as a Place where we Belong
Emma Farrell and Shane D. Bergin
Attributing Human Beings: Resistance through Relationships
Nancy L. Chick
A Weaving Together of Ideas
Jennifer Davis
Playing with Fire: The Art of Being a Slow Professor
Heather Evans
The Slow Professor and the Slow Graduate Student
Chris M. Golde and Jeffrey Schwegman
On Embracing Wellness: My Journey to Crafting Habits for Work and Well-being in Academia
M. Brielle Harbin
Higher Vibrations in Higher Education: Starting with Stillness, Slowness, and Intention
Samantha M. Harden
Slow Knowing and Teaching is a Common Cause
Libuše Heczková and Josef Šebek
Thinking Together through Slowness, Criptime, and Access Thievery
Chelsea Temple Jones and Kimberlee Collins
Reclaiming the Public Intellectual in an Era of the Research-Industrial Complex
Michael Laver
Slowness and Fragmented Me
Heather A. Smith
Strange Bedfellows: Slowness, Sickness, and Scholarly 'Me Time'
Sara Ashencaen Crabtree
Finding Slow in Academic Libraries
Laurie Morrison
The Labyrinth Project: Resisting the Culture of Speed in the Academy (one step at a time!)
Jill Grose
Notes on Contributors
