The Para-Academic Handbook
Subtitle: A Toolkit for Making-Learning-Creating-Acting
Contributors: Withers, Deborah; Wardrop, Alex; Withers, Deborah
Publisher: Intellect
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Bristol
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780956450753
Subjects: Adult education, continuous learning; Education
Description: "There is a name for those under-and precariously employed, but actively working, academics in today’s society: the para-academic.
Para-academics mimic academic practices so they are liberated from the confines of the university. Our work, and our lives, reflect how the idea of a university as a place for knowledge production, discussion and learning, has become distorted by neo-liberal market forces.
We create alternative, genuinely open access, learning-thinking-making-acting spaces on the internet, in publications, in exhibitions, discussion groups or other mediums that seem appropriate to the situation. We don’t sit back and worry about our career developments paths. We write for the love of it, we think because we have to, we do it because we care."
Notes: Open Access Unrestricted online access

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