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The Slow Professor

Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy

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The Slow Professor

By: Maggie Berg, Barbara K. Seeber
Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith
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If there is one sector of society that should be cultivating deep thought in itself and others, it is academia. Yet the corporatisation of the contemporary university has sped up the clock, demanding increased speed and efficiency from faculty regardless of the consequences for education and scholarship.

In The Slow Professor, Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber discuss how adopting the principles of the Slow movement in academic life can counter this erosion of humanistic education. Focusing on the individual faculty member and his or her own professional practice, Berg and Seeber present both an analysis of the culture of speed in the academy and ways of alleviating stress while improving teaching, research, and collegiality. The Slow Professor will be a must-listen for anyone in academia concerned about the frantic pace of contemporary university life.

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The content is spot on but the narration sounded like an AI bot was reading. Unfortunately this was distracting and detracted from the content.

Distracting narration

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the content was great, the topics have come up in my everyday conversations with colleagues now, as the book really helps you to identify fast academia in practice.
I suspect the production has done something strange to the performers recording ...may be slowed it down !?! at first I thought it was a robot reading which was very disconcerting. but after a while you can tell the reader is a real person and it is worth persevering if, like me , you found it strange at first.

a great reminder that there is no big rush

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