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Accelerating academia = the changing structure of academic time /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Accelerating academia/ by Filip Vostal.
Reminder of title:	the changing structure of academic time /
Author:	Vostal, Filip.
Published:	London :Palgrave Macmillan UK : : 2016.,
Description:	xi, 242 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	College teachers - Workload. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137473608
ISBN:	9781137473608

Accelerating academia = the changing structure of academic time /
Vostal, Filip.

Accelerating academiathe changing structure of academic time /[electronic resource] :by Filip Vostal. - London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2016. - xi, 242 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave studies in science, knowledge and policy. - Palgrave studies in science, knowledge and policy..

The era of a 'slow-paced' academia characterized by leisurely tempos of research and pedagogy has gone. Academia is now an intensely social site, and the boundaries between capitalist dynamics and academic life have become blurred. Academic workloads are increasing as academics have to deal with an ever-growing number of tasks, information, obligations, texts, procedures and connections. Yet the time available for carrying out these activities remains relatively constant, and even seems to be decreasing. Simultaneously, the 'will to accelerate' has emerged as a significant cultural and structural force in knowledge production, propelled by competitiveness and the drive for excellence. Filip Vostal examines the changing character of academic time, and questions the nature of this acceleration. Without challenging its negative implications, Vostal argues that we cannot fully understand this phenomenon unless we scrutinize its positive dimensions, and ask why people opt for acceleration, and how and why the compulsion to accelerate features in higher Education policy discourse.

ISBN: 9781137473608

Standard No.: 10.1057/9781137473608doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1107726
College teachers
--Workload.

LC Class. No.: LB2331 / .V675 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 378.12212

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