Save the world on your own time / Stanley Fish.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fish, Stanley Eugene, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College teachers--United States--Political activity.

College teachers.

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--United States.

Education, Higher.

Education, Higher--Political aspects--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

What is the purpose of higher education? Here, Stanley Fish argues that, however laudable goals of fostering diversity and democracy might be, there is but one proper role for the academe in society: to advance bodies of knowledge and to equip students for doing the same.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 The Task of Higher Education; CHAPTER 2 Do Your Job; CHAPTER 3 Administrative Interlude; CHAPTER 4 Don't Try to Do Someone Else's Job; CHAPTER 5 Don't Let Anyone Else Do Your Job; CHAPTER 6 Higher Education under Attack; CHAPTER 7 A Conclusion and Two Voices from the Other Side; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W; Y

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and publisher information.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-756324-4

0-19-970914-9

OCLC:

1336402458