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OverviewThis book offers a response to the culture of metrics, mass digitisation, and accountability (as opposed to responsibility, or citizenship) that has developed in higher education world wide, as exemplified by the UK's Research Excellence Framework exercise (REF), and the increasing bureaucracy that limits the time available for teaching, research, and even conversation and collaboration. Ironically, these are problems that will be solved only by academicsfinding the time to talk and to work together. The essays collected here both critique the culture of speed in the neoliberal university and provide examples of what can be achieved by slowing down, by reclaiming research and research priorities, and by working collaboratively across the disciplines to improve conditions. They are informed both by recent research in medieval studies and by the problematic culture of twenty-first century higher education. The contributions offer very personal approaches to the academic culture of the present moment. Some tackle issues of academic freedom head-on; others more obliquely; but they all have been written as declarations of theacademic freedom that comes with slow thinking, slow reading, slow writing and slow looking and the demonstrations of its benefits. CATHERINE E. KARKOV is Professor and Chair of Art History at the University of Leeds. Contributors: Lara Eggleton, Karen Jolly, Chris Jones, James Paz, Andrew Prescott, Heather Pulliam Full Product DetailsAuthor: Catherine E. Karkov , Professor Andrew Prescott , Catherine E. Karkov , Professor Chris Jones (ESRR Professor of English)Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd Imprint: D.S. Brewer Volume: v. 72 Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.376kg ISBN: 9781843845386ISBN 10: 1843845385 Pages: 182 Publication Date: 20 September 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsNo doubt, a subset of medievalists will savor this little collection of essays because of its ideological aggressiveness. SEHEPUNKTE No doubt, a subset of medievalists will savor this little collection of essays because of its ideological aggressiveness. * SEHEPUNKTE * The case studies in this volume will be of particular interest to medieval literary scholars and art historians, but not only them. Reading it is also a pleasure, because you can tell how much reflection and effort has gone into the articles. [...] Extremely valuable. * Historischen Zeitschrift * Bringing together voices from across literary studies, history, art history, and digital humanities, Slow Scholarship is a dynamic, frank, contribution to ongoing conversations in medieval studies and higher education. -- TOEBI Newsletter Karkov and her contributors' full-throated recognition that academic performance, whether it be scholarship or instruction, needs time to age and mature seems both freeing and subversive. [The book's] honest and thorough look at an emerging scholarly approach makes it a worthwhile acquisition for any university library. * Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (SMART) * Author InformationCATHERINE E. KARKOV is Professor Emeritus of Art History, University of Leeds. CATHERINE E. KARKOV is Professor Emeritus of Art History, University of Leeds. Karen Louise Jolly is professor of medieval European history at the University of Hawai'i Mānoa. Her research focuses on popular religion, marginal manuscripts, and re-imagining early medieval Britain through historical fiction. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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