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Download or read book Tenure for Socrates written by Jon Huer and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1991 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative criticism of the contemporary American professoriate, Jon Huer argues that tenure has created a kind of academic stupor in which those who have it no longer live up to the ideals of their profession. In Huer's view, the institution of tenure has created an economic sinecure, rendering the tenured professor irrelevant to the society that sustains him or her. The typical tenured career, Huer asserts, often degenerates into intellectual boredom, the routine publication of a series of narrowly specialized research papers, a pervasive dissatisfaction, and a search for monetary and other rewards outside the university. Huer proposes that the time has come to reexamine the issues surrounding tenure in an attempt to determine the best ways to reinvigorate the professoriate and reestablish a fruitful connection between academic and nonacademic society. Divided into four sections, Huer's work is written throughout in a refreshingly nonacademic style. He begins by examining the institution of academic tenure and its relevance given current market realities. Subsequent sections explore the impact of tenure on issues of academic freedom, on the relationship between the professor and the larger society, and on the professor and his or her career. Huer demonstrates that, in general, those who have tenure do not need it, and those who need it do not have it. In pursuit of tenure, professors are forced to produce meaningless scholarship relevant only to their specialized colleagues and immediate career goals. Tenured professors, on the other hand, far from using their academic freedom in service of truth and society, help perpetuate the academic insulation and irrelevance. Certain to spark controversy and debate, Tenure for Socrates serves as a much needed reevaluation of both the role of the American professoriate and the impact of tenure on that role.
Book Synopsis Socrates Tenured by : Robert Frodeman
Download or read book Socrates Tenured written by Robert Frodeman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book diagnoses a crisis facing philosophy – and the humanities more broadly – and sketches a path toward institutionalizing socially engaged approaches to philosophical research.
Author :Robert Frodeman Publisher :Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society ISBN 13 :9781783483099 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (83 download)
Book Synopsis Socrates Tenured by : Robert Frodeman
Download or read book Socrates Tenured written by Robert Frodeman and published by Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book diagnoses a crisis facing philosophy - and the humanities more broadly - and sketches a path toward institutionalizing socially engaged approaches to philosophical research.
Book Synopsis Socrates in the Boardroom by : Amanda H. Goodall
Download or read book Socrates in the Boardroom written by Amanda H. Goodall and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why top scholars make the best university leaders Socrates in the Boardroom argues that world-class scholars, not administrators, make the best leaders of research universities. Amanda Goodall cuts through the rhetoric and misinformation swirling around this contentious issue—such as the assertion that academics simply don't have the managerial expertise needed to head the world's leading schools—using hard evidence and careful, dispassionate analysis. She shows precisely why experts need leaders who are experts like themselves. Goodall draws from the latest data on the world's premier research universities along with in-depth interviews with top university leaders both past and present, including University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann; Derek Bok and Lawrence Summers, former presidents of Harvard University; John Hood, former vice chancellor of the University of Oxford; Cornell University President David Skorton; and many others. Goodall explains why the most effective leaders are those who have deep expertise in what their organizations actually do. Her findings carry broad implications for the management of higher education, and she demonstrates that the same fundamental principle holds true for other important business sectors as well. Experts, not managers, make the best leaders. Read Socrates in the Boardroom and learn why.
Book Synopsis What Would Socrates Do? by : Joel Alden Schlosser
Download or read book What Would Socrates Do? written by Joel Alden Schlosser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges popular modern views of Socrates by examining the political significance of his activity in ancient Athens.
Book Synopsis Should God Get Tenure? by : David W. Gill
Download or read book Should God Get Tenure? written by David W. Gill and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the twentieth century, theological and religious perspectives have been marginalized, if not utterly excluded in many of our colleges and universities. The essays in this book argue in different ways for the critical, appreciative inclusion of theological and religious perspectives in higher education. The contributors believe that even in our secular, religiously disestablished era, religion and God continue to occupy an important and dynamic role in personal and social life. If our colleges and universities are to fulfill their higher aspirations of educating whole persons for the real world in all of its diversity and challenge, we need to go bravely against the flow and “give God tenure.”
Book Synopsis Plato’s Socrates, Philosophy and Education by : James M. Magrini
Download or read book Plato’s Socrates, Philosophy and Education written by James M. Magrini and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops for the readers Plato’s Socrates’ non-formalized “philosophical practice” of learning-through-questioning in the company of others. In doing so, the writer confronts Plato’s Socrates, in the words of John Dewey, as the “dramatic, restless, cooperatively inquiring philosopher" of the dialogues, whose view of education and learning is unique: (1) It is focused on actively pursuing a form of philosophical understanding irreducible to truth of a propositional nature, which defies “transfer” from practitioner to pupil; (2) It embraces the perennial “on-the-wayness” of education and learning in that to interrogate the virtues, or the “good life,” through the practice of the dialectic, is to continually renew the quest for a deeper understanding of things by returning to, reevaluating and modifying the questions originally posed regarding the “good life.” Indeed Socratic philosophy is a life of questioning those aspects of existence that are most question-worthy; and (3) It accepts that learning is a process guided and structured by dialectic inquiry, and is already immanent within and possible only because of the unfolding of the process itself, i.e., learning is not a goal that somehow stands outside the dialectic as its end product, which indicates erroneously that the method or practice is disposable. For learning occurs only through continued, sustained communal dialogue.
Book Synopsis The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates, Surnamed Scholasticus, Or the Advocate: Comprising a History of the Church in Seven Books, from the Accession by : Socrates
Download or read book The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates, Surnamed Scholasticus, Or the Advocate: Comprising a History of the Church in Seven Books, from the Accession written by Socrates and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-19 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis All the Essential Half-Truths about Higher Education by : George Dennis O'Brien
Download or read book All the Essential Half-Truths about Higher Education written by George Dennis O'Brien and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this refreshing and original exploration, George Dennis O'Brien looks at higher education in America. O'Brien argues that to debate intelligently the future of education we must stop focusing on its ideals and look instead at its institutions. He does this by addressing nine half-truths, such as whether "low cost public education benefits the least advantaged in society," and goes on to examine how accurately they reflect the true state of higher education. The result is a thought-provoking discussion of the present challenges and future prospects of American higher education. "O'Brien's historical overview of the transition from 19th-century denominational colleges to 20th-century research-driven and largely secular ones is provocative. Cleverly written and well-focused, the book addresses the financial pressures facing higher education and asks vital questions about cutbacks and curricula."—Publishers Weekly "Lively, engaging, and richly suggestive." —Francis Oakley, Commonweal "O'Brien employs calm, powerful reason, without sensationalism. His perspective is illuminating. . . . All the Essential Half-Truths About Higher Education is one of the wisest and most useful treatments of American higher education." —John Attarian, Detroit News
Book Synopsis The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates, Surnamed Scholasticus, Or the Advocate by : Socrates (Scholasticus)
Download or read book The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates, Surnamed Scholasticus, Or the Advocate written by Socrates (Scholasticus) and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Socrates and the Socratic Schools by : Eduard Zeller
Download or read book Socrates and the Socratic Schools written by Eduard Zeller and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Guide to Field Philosophy by : Evelyn Brister
Download or read book A Guide to Field Philosophy written by Evelyn Brister and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers increasingly engage in practical work with other disciplines and the world at large. This volume draws together the lessons learned from this work—including philosophers’ contributions to scientific research projects, consultations on matters of policy, and expertise provided to government agencies and non-profits—on how to effectively practice philosophy. Its 22 case studies are organized into five sections: I Collaboration and Communication II Policymaking and the Public Sphere III Fieldwork in the Academy IV Fieldwork in the Professions V Changing Philosophical Practice Together, these essays provide a practical, how-to guide for doing philosophy in the field—how to find problems that can benefit from philosophical contributions, effectively collaborate with other professionals and community members, make fieldwork a positive part of a philosophical career, and anticipate and negotiate the sorts of unanticipated problems that crop up in direct public engagement. Key features: Gives specific advice on how to integrate philosophy with outside groups. Offers examples from working with the public and private sectors, community organizations, and academic groups. Provides lessons learned, often summarized at the end of chapters, for how to practice philosophy in the field.
Book Synopsis A Life of Socrates by : Gustav Friedrich Wiggers
Download or read book A Life of Socrates written by Gustav Friedrich Wiggers and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rescuing Socrates by : Roosevelt Montas
Download or read book Rescuing Socrates written by Roosevelt Montas and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dominican-born academic tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life—and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgrounds What is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterized by a rigorous engagement with the classics of Western thought and literature, this approach to education is all but extinct in American universities, replaced by flexible distribution requirements and ever-narrower academic specialization. Many academics attack the very idea of a Western canon as chauvinistic, while the general public increasingly doubts the value of the humanities. In Rescuing Socrates, Dominican-born American academic Roosevelt Montás tells the story of how a liberal education transformed his life, and offers an intimate account of the relevance of the Great Books today, especially to members of historically marginalized communities. Montás emigrated from the Dominican Republic to Queens, New York, when he was twelve and encountered the Western classics as an undergraduate in Columbia University’s renowned Core Curriculum, one of America’s last remaining Great Books programs. The experience changed his life and determined his career—he went on to earn a PhD in English and comparative literature, serve as director of Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum, and start a Great Books program for low-income high school students who aspire to be the first in their families to attend college. Weaving together memoir and literary reflection, Rescuing Socrates describes how four authors—Plato, Augustine, Freud, and Gandhi—had a profound impact on Montás’s life. In doing so, the book drives home what it’s like to experience a liberal education—and why it can still remake lives.
Book Synopsis Socrates' Ecclesiastical History by : Scholasticus Socrates
Download or read book Socrates' Ecclesiastical History written by Scholasticus Socrates and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2003-03-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Last Days of Socrates by : Roger Penney
Download or read book The Last Days of Socrates written by Roger Penney and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was Socrates really like? What did he do that led up to his death? Roger Penney argues that Socrates was a great man; a man of humour, sensitivity and who showed great skill in dealing with his enemies. Journey back to ancient Athens in this vivid account of the trial of Socrates, bringing the characters and the time period to life. Penney demonstrates his knowledge in this field through carefully crafted arguments and common questions and responses. He is an advocate for truth and justice and freedom of speech. An accessible read for anyone interested in the subject, from novice philosopher to experts in the field.
