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[hazard]

kolega predstavlja svoj phd u tri minuta:

 

a meni se riga. od tog seksi pristupa, od prenaduvanih, preopstih tvrdnji, od zalazenja u polje drustvenih nauka bez ikakve ideje o drustvenim naukama, i generalno od proseravanja. ali taj pristup je tako prihvacen, tako rasprostranjen. obecaj da ce tvoj sledeci eksperimentic da objasni sustinu ljudske kulture, sto da ne. b-ljak.

 

Jedino što me više nervira od društvenjaka koji pokušavaju da uz neke matematičke modele i jednačine glume ,,hard science" su prirodnjaci koji će kroz razmevanje ključnog gena X ili dela mozga Y da ti objasne kulturu, istoriju i suštinu ljudskog roda uopšte.

Edited March 2, 2015 by hazard

[Budja]

Da, to uopstavanje da bi se prodao nebitni eksperiment je uzelo maha.

 

Lik sa Harvarda krenuoda objasnjava institucionalnu kulturu i uticaj na ekonomski rast, Kongo, istorija, civilzacija, kolonizacija, razdvaja reka... super zanimljivo da bi na kraju identifikacija uzroka pocivala na varijaciji ultimatum game u dva sela razlicitih plemena s ove i so ne strane reke. Naravno, u prva dva pitanja iz publike srusila se cela konstrukcija, ali ko te pita.

[Indy]

Cudo je da toga nema i vise, koliko se ljudi gotovo sistematski uteruju u taj potpuno isprazni marketing i samopromociju. Iz mog iskustva, problem je poceo sa utrpavanjem egzeka opsteg profila na univerzitete. (Otprilike, bio direktor naftne kompanije, zatim predsednik udruzenja kockarskih organizacija, a sada je - prirodno - vice-chancellor univerziteta... taj tip "muzickih stolica" za executives.)

[hazard]

menadjer opste prakse, moj omiljeni profil <_<

[betty]

drugim rechima, prodaj, prodaj, prodaj.

 

nema tu shta.

 

kad smo kod prodaj, prodaj, prodaj: fakin ne verujem. 

 

Kanye West speaks to the Oxford Guild Society - Monday 2nd March 2015, 3pm, Oxford University Museum of Natural History

 

 

Kanye West is set to give a talk at Oxford University on Monday 2nd March 2015 at 3pm.

The address will be hosted by the Oxford Guild Society at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History which was established in 1850. The award-winning Oxford Guild Society is Oxford and the UK’s largest and oldest professional society, dating back to 1897.

The Oxford student body is very excited to host this occasion and looks forward to an inspiring and insightful talk from Kanye West.

The illustrious and award winning Oxford Guild Society, after a great deal of hard work and extensive negotiations, is excited to bring you the biggest speaker of the year: the one and only, Kanye West.

We would like to request that you email [email protected] as soon as possible with any questions you might wish to hear Kanye West answer. We will select some of them to ask him during the event.

The Guild is very keen to ensure that all Oxford University students are given a chance to hear from Kanye West and will be uploading a full video of the talk after the event. The Guild has a unique, tried and tested, successful award-winning ticketing policy for its largest scale speakers and social events. We do not want students to waste their afternoons queuing, only not to be let in and to be left disappointed. Nor do we want students to ballot and then not turn up leaving empty seats which have been taken by others.

We aim to minimise these risks by opening a random ballot list on Eventbrite – please add yourself to the waiting list. We will then completely randomly select students and release tickets for you to purchase for only £4 – you will have two hours in which to buy your ticket before the link expires.

There will be 3 releases:

Midnight Sunday 2nd March

2am Monday 2nd March

9am Monday 2nd March

If you cannot purchase your ticket in that time for any reason we will randomly select another person who has balloted and release one for them. No tickets will be available on the door. You will only be notified if you have been successful.

This is the first in a series of incredibly high profile speakers the Guild has lined up. We have been working industriously behind the scenes and would recommend you watch this space!

[MancMellow]

[Prospero]

punkt:

Teach or Perish
By Jacques Berlinerblau

...

If the nation’s humanities faculty consulted a life coach, even a representative of that peppy and platitudinous guild would conclude that we have made some bad decisions. It was not unwarranted to pose political questions in our research. We erred, however, in politicizing inquiry to the extent that we did. There is nothing wrong with importing theory into studies of literature, art, cinema, and so forth. It was ill-advised to bring so much theory—and almost always the same dense and ideologically tinctured brand of it—to bear on our vast canon of texts and traditions.

But no decision we ever made could have been more catastrophic than this one: Somewhere along the way, we spiritually and emotionally disengaged from teaching and mentoring students. The decision—which certainly hasn’t ingratiated us to the job-seeking generation—has resulted in one whopper of a contradiction. While teaching undergraduates is, normally, a large part of a professor’s job, success in our field is correlated with a professor’s ability to avoid teaching undergraduates.

It follows from this contradiction that the more accomplished the scholar, the less she or he is required to engage with students. Prestigious institutions perpetuate this logic by freeing their most distinguished faculty members from classroom responsibilities. Such luminaries, of course, might be asked to teach a small graduate course in their area of microspecialization. Or they might speak at multitudes of underclassmen in a stadium-size auditorium. These stars will be shielded by a battalion of teaching assistants, lest they be disquieted by some sophomore’s imbecilic concern about her midterm grade.
...
We live by the unspoken creed that teaching is, well, not really what one is supposed to be doing. Conversely, doing a lot of teaching is construed as a sign that one is not doing well. This perverse reasoning leads scholars to conjure up all manner of strategies geared to evading the lectern and maximizing undisturbed research time. In their ingenuity and inventiveness, these tactics have the quality of grift. There are those who robo-teach scads of extra classes for a few consecutive semesters, including summers, so as to bank years of liberty. There are "bishops" who convince some higher-up that they can function as part of the magisterium of the college by taking up residence indefinitely in a city far, far away. There are those who barter with deans to remain on sabbatical in perpetuity. Anything to avoid the servitude of the syllabus.

Of course, somebody’s gotta teach all those undergraduates—they won’t teach themselves! A tremendous debt of gratitude is owed to the so-called losers—the full- and part-timers who teave and slave in classrooms with students. I salute them. But it must be acknowledged that many of these hard-working scholars would eagerly shuck aside all those fresh-faced freshmen in exchange for a double zero. As teachers they don’t lack for industry; they lack for passion.

How we arrived at a point where teaching is reckoned as a burden and a stigma is not a story I can recount here. The retreat from the classroom is like that long stretch of highway you navigated to get home but can’t recall in any detail. We obviously went down that road as a guild—we just can’t remember when or how. Now we’re here. It may be too late to turn back.
...

 
i kontrapunkt:

You Publish, We Perish

To the Editor:

I’m still stewing over Jacques Berlinerblau’s "Teach or Perish," (The Chronicle Review, January 23), which the historian Jonathan Rees rightly called "the worst example of academic victim-blaming that I’ve ever seen." Berlinerblau’s basic claim is that the fall of higher education and its concomitant dependence upon contingent faculty are the results of the fact that "we" have forgotten to teach: "Somewhere along the way, we spiritually and emotionally disengaged from teaching and mentoring students."

To which I must ask, who does he mean by "we"? In what universe is a Georgetown professor, currently teaching only one course, capable of speaking for "us," the vast and diverse collection of people that is the American professoriate, most of whom are swimming in students?

Berlinerblau seems to have some inkling that he’s in a privileged minority: "Somebody’s gotta teach all those undergraduates—they won’t teach themselves! A tremendous debt of gratitude is owed to the so-called losers.… I salute them." After this faint praise, he opines that "many of these hard-working scholars would eagerly shuck aside all those fresh-faced freshmen in exchange for a double zero. As teachers they don’t lack for industry; they lack for passion."

That’s right, folks. "We" losers who teach undergraduates—whether tenured folks teaching a reasonable six courses a year (like me) or adjuncts piecing together eight or 10 courses at several institutions to make ends meet—are simply not passionate enough to get a job at a place like Georgetown.

Then Berlinerblau offers this groundbreaking idea: "I submit a re-visioning of an American college professor’s job description: The successful candidate will be skilled in, and passionately devoted to, teaching and mentoring 18- to 22-year-olds, as well as those in other age groups. Additionally, she or he will show promise as an original and creative researcher."

This would be quite a revelation if it didn’t describe most of "us" already. According to the AAUP, more than half of college instructors are now part-time and three-quarters are non-tenure-track, a turn toward cheap labor diagnosed as "largely a matter of priorities rather than economic necessity." But it is not teachers’ priorities that have changed. According to one study, the first love of many college teachers is still—wait for it—teaching. "We" got into academe not because we wanted to be lauded by a few intellectual snobs with obscure tastes (and certainly not because we wanted to spend our lives in governance meetings) but because we loved our undergraduate professors and wanted to be just like them for a new generation of students.

What has changed are not "our" priorities but those of the nation. Americans don’t care to help educate other people’s children anymore, conceiving education as a private good rather than a societal benefit. Institutions that don’t have a Georgetown-sized endowment, in turn, must change their priorities for "customers" who value good teaching far less than affordable, marketable credentials.

As with global recessions, the people who have made the problem in higher education are not the ones who suffer from its effects. Faculty members at well-funded schools will continue a pattern of heavy research and light teaching (to the tune of about $178,000 per year for Georgetown professors), while lower ranks at less prestigious colleges will be phased out and replaced course-by-course with starving adjuncts.

Berlinerblau’s thoughts might indeed be inspiring if, for the long-term benefit of higher education, the one-percenters in academe were to suddenly and magnanimously give up their privilege and start teaching respectable course loads for no extra pay. Until then, "they" will keep publishing and the rest of "us" will keep teaching till we perish, since our salaries won’t allow us to retire before then.

Kathryn D. Blanchard
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Alma College

[gospa buba]

pushtite vi to. nego shta ce da obuche gospodja west za tu prigodu? ^_^

 

nece valjda da ga pusti samog medj univerzitetski olosh

Edited March 3, 2015 by gospa buba

[topuzina]

Četvorogodišnjak, od majke fizičarke i oca medicinskog tehničara pita roditelje: "Can men be physicists too?" 

 

^_^

[Indy]

C, c, c, tek se ispilio, a već ima te rodno neravnopravne ideje.

[hazard]

kad smo kod prodaj, prodaj, prodaj: fakin ne verujem. 

 

Kanye West speaks to the Oxford Guild Society - Monday 2nd March 2015, 3pm, Oxford University Museum of Natural History

 

 

Što je to čudno? Evo šta čovek kaže: 

 

 

 

I AM WARHOL! I AM THE NUMBER ONE MOST IMPACTFUL ARTIST OF OUR GENERATION. I AM SHAKESPEARE IN THE FLESH. WALT DISNEY, NIKE, GOOGLE.

-Sway in the Morning, 2013

 

 

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/exp/kanye/kanye.html

[betty]

a ovom prilikom je rekao i: "My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater."

[MancMellow]

Čist Doooooooom

[gospa buba]

Četvorogodišnjak, od majke fizičarke i oca medicinskog tehničara pita roditelje: "Can men be physicists too?" 

 

^_^

i, shta rekla majka?

 

kod nas se to pitanje nije postavljalo. ali je bilo 1 - a jel moram i ja da budem fizichar? ne da ne morash brate, nego ima da gledam da vas rasejem u dijametralne oblasti, da imam ja od koga da nauchim neshto novo u starosti! :D

[topuzina]

A rekla već nešto, šta će da kaže. 

 

Znači, vi niste kao lekari pa da se semo umnožavate :D