Reversing the Cult of Speed in Higher Education

The Slow Movement in the Arts and Humanities
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-08028-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 236 mm x 160 mm, Gewicht: 564 g

A collection of essays written by arts and humanities scholars across disciplines, this book argues that higher education has been compromised by its uncritical acceptance of our culture’s standards of productivity, busyness, and speed. Inspired by the Slow Movement, contributors explain how and why university culture has come to value productivity over contemplation and rapidity over slowness. Chapter authors argue that the arts and humanities offer a cogent critique of fast culture in higher education, and reframe the discussion of the value of their fields by emphasizing the dialectic between speed and slowness.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chambers, Jonathan

Gearhart, Stephannie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Contextualizing Speed and Slowness in Higher Education

Stephannie S. Gearhart and Jonathan Chambers I. Fast Consequences

- Imagining the Slow University

Stephannie S. Gearhart

- Queerness Over Time: Slowness, Speed, and the Chronopolitics of Scholarship

Margarita Rayzberg and Blake Smith

- Out-of-Phase: Studio Art, Time, and Professionalization in the Academy — A Conversation…

Charles Kanwischer and Katerina Rüedi Ray

- 24/7 Capitalism and Academic Theatre Production

Jonathan Chambers

- Subversive Singularity: Beyond Meaning and Knowledge

Gordon C. F. Bearn

II. Slow Resistance: Academic Production

- Tactical Slowness: Fomenting a Culture of Mental Health in the Academy

Scott Magelssen and Shelby Lunderman

- Waste Time: Excess Potential in Academic Production

C. Greig Crysler and Shiloh Krupar

- Neoliberalism, Recursivity, Theatre

Patricia Ybarra

- Read Another Book: Repeat When Necessary

Rebecca Hill

III. Slow Resistance: Pedagogical Approaches

- Less is More: Slow Reading in the Undergraduate Classroom

Wendy Arons

- Consuming Time or Making Time? Slow History and General Education

Jane Simonsen

- Teaching Music Slowly

Fred Everett Maus

- Mindfulness as Slow Education in the First-Year Composition Classroom

Kyle Garton-Gundling

- Not So Fast: The Virtues of Slow Rhetoric Barry M. Kroll

Conclusion

Stephannie S. Gearhart and Jonathan Chambers

Über Autor(innen)

Stephannie Gearhart is Associate Professor of English at Bowling Green State University, USA.

Jonathan Chambers is Professor of Theater and Film at Bowling Green State University, USA.