The engaged scholar -- Limitations of the academic reward system -- The rules of engagement -- The scholarly uses of social media -- Engagement and the arc of your career

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1. Verfasser:	Hoffman, Andrew J. 1961- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Stanford, California Stanford Briefs, an imprint of Stanford University Press [2021]
Schlagworte:	Wissenschaftler Akademiker Wissensvermittlung Forschung Social Media Karriere Education, Higher / Political aspects Research / Political aspects Learning and scholarship / Political aspects College teachers / Political activity Scholars / Political activity Communication in learning and scholarship
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Zusammenfassung:	The engaged scholar -- Limitations of the academic reward system -- The rules of engagement -- The scholarly uses of social media -- Engagement and the arc of your career "Society and democracy are ever threatened by the fall of fact. Rigorous analysis of facts, the hard boundary between truth and opinion, and fidelity to reputable sources of factual information are all in alarming decline. A 2018 report published by the RAND Corporation lay the challenge of fixing this "truth decay" at the door of the academy, but, as Andrew J. Hoffman points out, academia is prevented from carrying this out due to its own existential crisis--a crisis of relevance. Scholarship rarely moves very far beyond the walls of the academy, and is certainly not accessing the primarily civic spaces it needs to be in in order to mitigate truth corruption. In this brief but compelling book, Hoffman draws upon existing literature and personal experience to bring attention to the problematic of academic insularity--where it comes from and where, if left to grow unchecked, it will go--and argues for the emergence of a more publicly and politically engaged scholar. This book is a call to make that path toward public engagement more acceptable and legitimate for those who do; to enlarge the tent to be inclusive of multiple ways that one enacts the role of academic scholar in today's world"--
Beschreibung:	xv, 166 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:	9781503614819