Teaching, Tenure, and Collegiality
Confucian Relationality in an Age of Measurable Outcomes
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2022
252 pages
978-1-4384-8747-2 (ISBN)
Description
Questions universities' increasing reliance on market-oriented metrics to determine their strategic directions and gauge faculty productivity.
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English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
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Reflowable
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978-1-4384-8747-2 (9781438487472)
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Mary K. Chang
Teaching, Tenure, and Collegiality
Confucian Relationality in an Age of Measurable Outcomes
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08/2022
State University of New York Press
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Mary K. Chang
Teaching, Tenure, and Collegiality
Confucian Relationality in an Age of Measurable Outcomes
Book
02/2022
State University of New York Press
€107.90
Shipment within 10-20 days
Person
Mary K. Chang is an independent scholar, with a PhD in Educational Foundations from the University of Hawai'i. She is coeditor (with Teresa Vilardi) of Writing-Based Teaching: Essential Practices and Enduring Questions, also published by SUNY Press.
Content
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Value of Cohering Faculty Roles
Marketizing Higher Education
Normalization of Individualization Separates
Distinguishing Confucian Relationality
Attending to Processes
Linking Time and Space
Juxtaposition as a Way to Enrich Relation
Part I: A Dynamic Confucian Tradition
1. The Exam Is Not the Text
Emphasizing a Commentarial Tradition
Taking an Interpretive Approach
A Complicated Conflation
Toward Agential Reading
2. A Familial Way Forward
Parents and Children
A Process Orientation Harmonizes
Framing People as Events
Personal Cultivation Emerges Through Relationship
Part II: Universities: Toward Sharing Responsibility
3. The Tenure Expectations Paradox
Product Paradigm Stresses Efficiency
Abstraction Decontextualizes
What About Teaching?
Addressing the Paradox
Engage the Core Values
4. Foregrounding Collegiality
More Than a Method
Generating Collaborative Space
Taking Experiences Seriously
Beyond Measurable Outcomes
Developing Inner Circles
5. Responsive Pedagogy
Unlearning Positions of Privilege
From Personal Cultivation to Critique
All About Relation: Juxtaposition With Feminist Perspectives
Conclusion
Embracing the Complexity of Learning: Some Implications
How Will You Respond?
Appendix A: University of Hawai'i Strategic Directions, 2015-2021
Appendix B: Criteria and Guidelines for Faculty Tenure/Promotion
Bibliography
Index
Foreword
Introduction
Value of Cohering Faculty Roles
Marketizing Higher Education
Normalization of Individualization Separates
Distinguishing Confucian Relationality
Attending to Processes
Linking Time and Space
Juxtaposition as a Way to Enrich Relation
Part I: A Dynamic Confucian Tradition
1. The Exam Is Not the Text
Emphasizing a Commentarial Tradition
Taking an Interpretive Approach
A Complicated Conflation
Toward Agential Reading
2. A Familial Way Forward
Parents and Children
A Process Orientation Harmonizes
Framing People as Events
Personal Cultivation Emerges Through Relationship
Part II: Universities: Toward Sharing Responsibility
3. The Tenure Expectations Paradox
Product Paradigm Stresses Efficiency
Abstraction Decontextualizes
What About Teaching?
Addressing the Paradox
Engage the Core Values
4. Foregrounding Collegiality
More Than a Method
Generating Collaborative Space
Taking Experiences Seriously
Beyond Measurable Outcomes
Developing Inner Circles
5. Responsive Pedagogy
Unlearning Positions of Privilege
From Personal Cultivation to Critique
All About Relation: Juxtaposition With Feminist Perspectives
Conclusion
Embracing the Complexity of Learning: Some Implications
How Will You Respond?
Appendix A: University of Hawai'i Strategic Directions, 2015-2021
Appendix B: Criteria and Guidelines for Faculty Tenure/Promotion
Bibliography
Index
