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Author:   Janice Newson ,  Claire Polster
Publisher:   Canadian Scholars
Imprint:   Canadian Scholars
Weight:   0.417kg
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9781551303697

ISBN 10:   1551303698
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   28 February 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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Editors Janice Newson and Claire Polster have achieved a rare and delicate balance in their editorial direction, where personal narratives, rather than breaking up or obscuring the larger picture, speak to the complexity,the tensions, and the shifting ideals extant in the Canadian university. - Canadian Journal of Communications

"Editors Janice Newson and Claire Polster have achieved a rare and delicate balance in their editorial direction, where personal narratives, rather than breaking up or obscuring the larger picture, speak to the complexity,the tensions, and the shifting ideals extant in the Canadian university."""" - Canadian Journal of Communications"

Editors Janice Newson and Claire Polster have achieved a rare and delicate balance in their editorial direction, where personal narratives, rather than breaking up or obscuring the larger picture, speak to the complexity,the tensions, and the shifting ideals extant in the Canadian university. -- Canadian Journal of Communications

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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.

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