Academic Callings - The University We Have Had, Now Have, and Could Have (Paperback)

What purpose should the university serve? What are the true callings of academics? In Academic Callings, prominent Canadian scholars tackle these big questions and provide a timely survey of the state of the Canadian university. With so much current interest in the university's role in the economy, and so much emphasis on research tied to funding opportunities, this volume seeks to revive the idea of the university as it has been and could be again: a democratic institution committed to advancing critical thought and serving the public interest. With contributions from diverse disciplines - Classics to biology, nursing to sociology - Academic Callings aims to provoke a wide-ranging conversation, one that concerns everyone, whether as members of academic communities or as citizens. Contributors include Joel Bakan, George Sefa Dei, Barbara Godard, Paul Hamel, Dorothy Smith, Nasrin Rahimieh, Andrew Wernick, and more than twenty others.

General

Imprint:	Canadian Scholars' Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	March 2010
Editors:	Janice Newson • Claire Polster
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	276
ISBN-13:	978-1-55130-369-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > Universities / polytechnics
LSN:	1-55130-369-8
Barcode:	9781551303697

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