Towards a higher education
Contemplation, compassion, and the ethics of slowing down
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8858736 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Áine Mahon (0000-0002-8134-8265, University College Dublin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 448-458 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-05 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Philosophy and Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-1857 • E-ISSN: 1469-5812 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00131857.2019.1683826 |
| OpenAlex | W2987352769 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 11 |
The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy was published in 2016 to critical acclaim. Rejecting outright the marketisation of the modern university, the book proposed a countercultural approach which denounced the seductive imperatives to overwork and competition and called on academics to make a more deliberate moral choice. In this paper, I critically engage with The Slow Professor's ethical vision. I draw on the work of writers Sally Rooney, John Williams and David Foster Wallace in careful exploration of ‘slowness’ and its cognate terms. I am interested not only in the importance of slowness for university academics but for students in the 21st century university. These students, as pointed out recently by Bruce Macfarlane, are made to carry a plethora of conflicting identities and yet it is perhaps more important that we begin to demand less of our students and not more. Thus, in an era of audit and accountability, this paper explores the possibilities for a less frenetic approach to university teaching and learning
Compassion · Contemplation · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Higher education · Pedagogy · Philosophy of education · Political science · Sociology · Theology · Ethics in medical practice · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Theological Perspectives and Practices
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| Citations per year | 1.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |