The Academic Hour

Author : Keren Katz
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ISBN 13 : 9780996273954
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Academic Hour written by Keren Katz and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's safe to say that children in grade school can't illustrate images this impressive, but still, these Keren Katz renderings have a certain unrefined quality to them that's evocative of kids' drawings. This is, of course, a conscious design choice as Katz's style stands out immensely amidst a sea of computer-generated artistry. Her penchant for leaving things not perfectly colored, her exaggerated human proportions and the overall whimsy of the scenes she depicts are things that make her work endlessly interesting to examine." - Trendhunter The Academic Hour charts the romance between Poethel, a disgraced architecture professor, and his student, Liana. Told in a series of surreal, vibrant vignettes, and set in a fantastic, logic-defying college of shifting rooms and secret performance spaces, The Academic Hour affirms how an intense, fledgling relationship can ignite the impulse for storytelling with unbridled, ferocious creative energy. Keren Katz is an Israeli-born cartoonist, writer, and illustrator. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts's MFA Illustration Program, she is also "the illustrating half of The Katz Sisters duo. She is also the half that is not fictitious." Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Einayim Magazine for Children, Achbar Ha-Ir, Ha-Af, Ha-Pinkas, Carrier Pigeon, Linen Ovens Comics Poetry Anthology, Maayan Poetry Magazine, and by Locust Moon Comics and Seven Stories Press.

Author : H. N. Hirsch
Publisher : Quid Pro Books
ISBN 13 : 1610273370
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Office Hours written by H. N. Hirsch and published by Quid Pro Books. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal look inside the black box of American higher education. Even a cursory glance at today’s headlines reveals that higher education is in crisis. Tuition outpaces inflation, states slash budgets, graduation rates decline, and technology threatens to reshape everything. Universities continue to crank out new PhDs, but many will become poorly paid members of a secondary, adjunct labor force teaching most of today’s college courses. Scholars lucky enough to be on the tenure track must publish more and more, while students at large universities sit in ever larger lectures, seldom interacting with professors. Yet every year, thousands of applicants from the world over apply to America’s most prestigious colleges and universities, and students and their families continue to spend huge sums on college. What are colleges and universities really like—from the inside? What do we do wrong, and what are we doing right? What is it like to be a professor and administrator at one of America’s leading educational institutions? This memoir asks these questions, in a very personal way. “This is the story of a serious scholar finding his vocation, his students and his gratifications, amidst the near-impossibility of such discoveries in higher education today. The writing is beautiful and the accounts of times, places and institutions are alternatively moving, penetrating and provocative.” — Wendy Brown Class of 1936 First Professor of Political Science University of California–Berkeley “Written in lyrical and sparkling prose, Harry Hirsch’s Office Hours is, on the one hand, an intimate and insightful memoir of a Jewish gay man’s trajectory from a Chicago boyhood to Princeton, Harvard, and beyond. On the other hand, it’s a penetrating critical analysis of college and university approaches to education by an accomplished professor and dean (and dedicated teacher) who knows of what he speaks. Office Hours draws back the curtain on a major way of American life—the academic way—revealing at once the bright spots and the rotten ones. It should be read by every dean, professor, and adjunct, and by anyone involved in an academic career or contemplating one.” — Priscilla Long Author of The Writer's Portable Mentor and Crossing Over: Poems

Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9781663608192
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Lecture written by Perfection Learning Corporation and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Emdin
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807089516
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ratchetdemic written by Christopher Emdin and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolutionary new educational model that encourages educators to provide spaces for students to display their academic brilliance without sacrificing their identities Building on the ideas introduced in his New York Times best-selling book, For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood, Christopher Emdin introduces an alternative educational model that will help students (and teachers) celebrate ratchet identity in the classroom. Ratchetdemic advocates for a new kind of student identity—one that bridges the seemingly disparate worlds of the ivory tower and the urban classroom. Because modern schooling often centers whiteness, Emdin argues, it dismisses ratchet identity (the embodying of “negative” characteristics associated with lowbrow culture, often thought to be possessed by people of a particular ethnic, racial, or socioeconomic status) as anti-intellectual and punishes young people for straying from these alleged “academic norms,” leaving young people in classrooms frustrated and uninspired. These deviations, Emdin explains, include so-called “disruptive behavior” and a celebration of hip-hop music and culture. Emdin argues that being “ratchetdemic,” or both ratchet and academic (like having rap battles about science, for example), can empower students to embrace themselves, their backgrounds, and their education as parts of a whole, not disparate identities. This means celebrating protest, disrupting the status quo, and reclaiming the genius of youth in the classroom.

Author : Soviet Union. Ministerstvo vysshego obrazovanii︠a︡
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Higher School written by Soviet Union. Ministerstvo vysshego obrazovanii︠a︡ and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1430 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Department of Defense Appropriations for ... written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House Appropriations
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1644 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Department of Defense Appropriations for 1974 written by United States. Congress. House Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1420 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Military personnel (except for reserve forces), [Wednesday, June 6, 1973 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Dept. of Defense
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1436 pages
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Download or read book Department of Defense Appropriations for 1974 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Dept. of Defense and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1636 pages
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Download or read book Department of Defense Appropriations for 1974 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: