Making Sense of Academic Life

Making Sense of Academic Life
Author: Peter G. Taylor
Publsiher: Open University Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1999
Genre: Education
ISBN: STANFORD:36105025112017

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This book helps academics to become players rather than pawns in the process of change. To do so it raises issues that might inform thinking about - and therefore reactions to - academics' experiences of their changing roles in changing universities. In universities, the tradition is to change. The author looks at the big picture of change in higher education, and in academics' work and work environments. The focus is on the emergent educational role of academics, and the relationship between academics and their institutions. In these times, the strategy of working harder will not work. Unlike books written about how universities might be better managed, this book explores issues of self-interested self-management for academics. It suggests new ways of thinking about the nature and future of academic work, particularly in terms of the relationship between academic and institutional values, priorities and practices.

Making Sense of Life

Making Sense of Life
Author: Evelyn Fox KELLER,Evelyn Fox Keller
Publsiher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780674039445

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What do biologists want? How will we know when we have 'made sense' of life? Explanations in the biological sciences are provisional and partial, judged by criteria as heterogenous as their subject matter. This text accounts for this diversity.

Making Sense of Academic Life

Making Sense of Academic Life
Author: Peter G. Taylor
Publsiher: Open University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: College teachers
ISBN: 0335201849

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This book helps academics to become players rather than pawns in the process of change. To do so it raises issues that might inform thinking about - and therefore reactions to - academics' experiences of their changing roles in changing universities. In universities, the tradition is to change. The author looks at the big picture of change in higher education, and in academics' work and work environments. The focus is on the emergent educational role of academics, and the relationship between academics and their institutions. In these times, the strategy of working harder will not work. Unlike books written about how universities might be better managed, this book explores issues of self-interested self-management for academics. It suggests new ways of thinking about the nature and future of academic work, particularly in terms of the relationship between academic and institutional values, priorities and practices. Making Sense of Academic Life makes fascinating reading for all those interested in the evolving roles of academics and especially for academics themselves, aspiring academics, and academic managers.

Making Sense in the Life Sciences

Making Sense in the Life Sciences
Author: Margot Northey,P. von Aderkas
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2018-07-18
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 0199026815

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The Making Sense series offers clear, concise guides to research and writing for students at all levels of undergraduate study. The volumes in the Making Sense series - covering the humanities, social sciences, life sciences, engineering, psychology, religious studies, and education - areintended for students in any undergraduate course with a research and writing component, but are especially appropriate for those at the first-year level.Intended for life science students, Making Sense in the Life Sciences provides detailed information on writing essays and lab reports; conducting research and using academic sources; grammar, punctuation, and usage; conducting presentations; using graphics; and more. This revised edition includes acomplete CMS update; new discussions on writing for an audience, the importance of DOIs, and graphics in oral presentations; and more examples of key concepts.

Making Sense of Everyday Life

Making Sense of Everyday Life
Author: Susie Scott
Publsiher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2013-08-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780745658452

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This accessible, introductory text explains the importance of studying 'everyday life' in the social sciences. Susie Scott examines such varied topics as leisure, eating and drinking, the idea of home, and time and schedules in order to show how societies are created and reproduced by the apparently mundane 'micro' level practices of everyday life. Each chapter is organized around three main themes: 'rituals and routines', 'social order', and 'challenging the taken-for-granted', with intriguing examples and illustrations. Theoretical approaches from ethnomethodology, Symbolic Interactionism and social psychology are introduced and applied to real-life situations, and there is clear emphasis on empirical research findings throughout. Social order depends on individuals following norms and rules which are so familiar as to appear natural; yet, as Scott encourages the reader to discover, these are always open to question and investigation. This user-friendly book will appeal to undergraduate students across the social sciences, including the sociology of everyday life, the sociology of emotions, social psychology and cultural studies, and will reveal the fascinating significance our everyday habits hold.

Can Science Make Sense of Life

Can Science Make Sense of Life
Author: Sheila Jasanoff
Publsiher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2019-03-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781509522743

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Since the discovery of the structure of DNA and the birth of the genetic age, a powerful vocabulary has emerged to express science’s growing command over the matter of life. Armed with knowledge of the code that governs all living things, biology and biotechnology are poised to edit, even rewrite, the texts of life to correct nature’s mistakes. Yet, how far should the capacity to manipulate what life is at the molecular level authorize science to define what life is for? This book looks at flash points in law, politics, ethics, and culture to argue that science’s promises of perfectibility have gone too far. Science may have editorial control over the material elements of life, but it does not supersede the languages of sense-making that have helped define human values across millennia: the meanings of autonomy, integrity, and privacy; the bonds of kinship, family, and society; and the place of humans in nature.

The Moral Landscape

The Moral Landscape
Author: Sam Harris
Publsiher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2011-09-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781439171226

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Sam Harris dismantles the most common justification for religious faith--that a moral system cannot be based on science.

Waking Up

Waking Up
Author: Sam Harris
Publsiher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2014-09-09
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781451636031

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For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s latest New York Times bestseller is a guide to meditation as a rational practice informed by neuroscience and psychology. From Sam Harris, neuroscientist and author of numerous New York Times bestselling books, Waking Up is for the twenty percent of Americans who follow no religion but who suspect that important truths can be found in the experiences of such figures as Jesus, the Buddha, Lao Tzu, Rumi, and the other saints and sages of history. Throughout this book, Harris argues that there is more to understanding reality than science and secular culture generally allow, and that how we pay attention to the present moment largely determines the quality of our lives. Waking Up is part memoir and part exploration of the scientific underpinnings of spirituality. No other book marries contemplative wisdom and modern science in this way, and no author other than Sam Harris—a scientist, philosopher, and famous skeptic—could write it.