Academic Callings

The University We Have Had, Now Have, & Could Have
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-1-55130-369-7
Verlag: Canadian Scholars Press

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 414 g

What purpose should the university serve? What are the true callings of academics? In Academic Callings, prominent Canadian scholars tackle these big questions and provide a timely survey of the state of the Canadian university. With so much current interest in the university's role in the economy, and so much emphasis on research tied to funding opportunities, this volume seeks to revive the idea of the university as it has been and could be again: a democratic institution committed to advancing critical thought and serving the public interest.

With contributions from diverse disciplines — Classics to biology, nursing to sociology — Academic Callings aims to provoke a wide-ranging conversation, one that concerns everyone, whether as members of academic communities or as citizens.

Contributors include Joel Bakan, George Sefa Dei, Barbara Godard, Paul Hamel, Dorothy Smith, Nasrin Rahimieh, Andrew Wernick, and more than twenty others.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Newson, Janice

Polster, Claire

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface
- Introduction: Academic Callings and the Past, Present, and Future of the Canadian University - Janice Newson and Claire Polster
- Part 1: Against All Reason: Wake-up Calls
- Chapter 1: Are We Losing Our Minds? Unreason in Canadian Universities Today - Claire Polster
- Chapter 2: Beyond Market Self-serving: Recovering the Academy's Vocation - John McMurtry
- Chapter 3: The Risk of Critique: Voices across the Generations - Barbara Godard
- Chapter 4: We Are Saying Too Much. and Not Enough - Karen Rudie
- Chapter 5: A Requiem for Fundamental Biology - Arthur Forer
- Chapter 6: Idea and Reality: The University or the Universities - John P. Valleau
- Part 2: Taking Stock of Personal and Institutional Histories: Calls to Account
- Chapter 7: A Brief Memoir from the Trenches - Andrew Wernick
- Chapter 8: A Career against the Grain: An Academic Callings Interview - Dorothy Smith
- Chapter 9: Living through Revolutionary and Reactionary Times - in the Wrong Order - Roberta Hamilton
- Chapter 10: Force without Reason - Gordon Shrimpton
- Chapter 11: Two Hours Left and Nothing to Say - Bruce Curtis
- Chapter 12: From the Personal to the Political: Some Reflections and Hopes - Jennie Hornosty
- Part 3: Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Calls to Administrative Leadership
- Chapter 13: Yesterday and Today: Universities and the Growth of the Market Model - Howard Woodhouse
- Chapter 14: A Postcard from the Belly of the Beast - Janice Ristock
- Chapter 15: How Can One Be Persian in the Canadian Academy? - Nasrin Rahimieh
- Chapter 16: The Paradoxes of Academic Administration - Mary Ellen Purkis
- Part 4: Making Space: Calls to Open Paths
- Chapter 17: Academic Activism and Nomadic Paths - Jamie Magnusson
- Chapter 18: Transforming the University from an Aboriginal Perspective - Jo-ann Archibald
- Chapter 19: Engaging Race, Anti-racism, and Equity Issues in the Academy: A Personal Odyssey - George J. Sefa Dei
- Chapter 20: Feminists in Academe: From Outsiders to Insiders? - Joan Sangster
- Chapter 21: An Ode to Wisdom: Got, Don't Got, Borrowed, and Sought - Elizabeth (Bessa) Whitmore
- Chapter 22: The University and Its Political Economy: An Academic Callings Interview - Joel Bakan
- Part 5: Re/generating Publics: Calls to Collectivity
- Chapter 23: Exploits in the Undercommons - Alison Hearns
- Chapter 24: Academic Freedom, Institutional Autonomy, and the Co-operative University - Len Findlay
- Chapter 25: The University Public and Its Enemies - Frank Cunningham
- Chapter 26: Reflections on Teaching and Learning - Margaret-Ann Armour
- Chapter 27: Offside: Playing Hockey at the University of Saskatchewan - Glenis Joyce
- Chapter 28: Making the University Work for Communities - Barbara Neis
- Chapter 29: Recovering the University as a Collective Project - Janice Newson
- About the Authors

Über Autor(innen)

Janice Newson is Professor Emerita in the Department of Sociology at York University.

Claire Polster is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Studies at the University of Regina.