Description:Tracing the transformation of early modern academics into modern researchers from the Renaissance to Romanticism, "Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University "uses the history of the university and reframes the Protestant Ethic to reconsider the conditions of knowledge production in the modern world. William Clark argues that the research universityOCowhich originated in German Protestant lands and spread globally in the nineteenth and twentieth centuriesOCodeveloped in response to market forces and bureaucracy, producing a new kind of academic whose goal was to establish originality and achieve fame through publication. With an astonishing wealth of research, "Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University "investigates the origins and evolving fixtures of academic life: the lecture catalogue, the library catalog, the grading system, the conduct of oral and written exams, the roles of conversation and the writing of research papers in seminars, the writing and oral defense of the doctoral dissertation, the ethos of lecturing with applause and publish or perish, and the role of reviews and rumor. This is a grand, ambitious book that should be required reading for every academic."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University. To get started finding Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
669
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Release
2014
ISBN
0226109232
Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University
Description: Tracing the transformation of early modern academics into modern researchers from the Renaissance to Romanticism, "Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University "uses the history of the university and reframes the Protestant Ethic to reconsider the conditions of knowledge production in the modern world. William Clark argues that the research universityOCowhich originated in German Protestant lands and spread globally in the nineteenth and twentieth centuriesOCodeveloped in response to market forces and bureaucracy, producing a new kind of academic whose goal was to establish originality and achieve fame through publication. With an astonishing wealth of research, "Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University "investigates the origins and evolving fixtures of academic life: the lecture catalogue, the library catalog, the grading system, the conduct of oral and written exams, the roles of conversation and the writing of research papers in seminars, the writing and oral defense of the doctoral dissertation, the ethos of lecturing with applause and publish or perish, and the role of reviews and rumor. This is a grand, ambitious book that should be required reading for every academic."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University. To get started finding Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.