Reversing the Cult of Speed in Higher Education: The Slow Movement in the Arts and Humanities

ISBN-13: 9780367583941 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 262 str.

Jonathan Chambers; Stephannie Gearhart

Opis

This book argues that higher education has been compromised by its uncritical acceptance of our culture’s standards of productivity, busyness, and speed.

Spis treści

Introduction: Contextualizing Speed and Slowness in Higher Education

Stephannie S. Gearhart and Jonathan Chambers

          I. Fast Consequences

1. Imagining the Slow University







Stephannie S. Gearhart












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







Margarita Rayzberg and Blake Smith












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







Charles Kanwischer and Katerina Rüedi Ray












4. 24/7 Capitalism and Academic Theatre Production







Jonathan Chambers












5. Subversive Singularity: Beyond Meaning and Knowledge







Gordon C. F. Bearn








II. Slow Resistance: Academic Production












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







Scott Magelssen and Shelby Lunderman












7. Waste Time: Excess Potential in Academic Production







C. Greig Crysler and Shiloh Krupar












8. Neoliberalism, Recursivity, Theatre







Patricia Ybarra












9. Read Another Book: Repeat When Necessary







Rebecca Hill








III. Slow Resistance: Pedagogical Approaches












10. Less is More: Slow Reading in the Undergraduate Classroom







Wendy Arons












11. Consuming Time or Making Time? Slow History and General Education







Jane Simonsen












12. Teaching Music Slowly







Fred Everett Maus












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







Kyle Garton-Gundling












14. Not So Fast: The Virtues of Slow Rhetoric

           Barry M. Kroll

Conclusion

Stephannie S. Gearhart and Jonathan Chambers

O autorze

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.