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...greater scale." This is a usual response I have heard when students dismiss teaching as a short-term or long-term career possibility. Socially conscious students who nurture idealistic ambitions of saving the world aspire to "large scale change" through careers in law, medicine, government, educational policy or academia...
When she was beginning her career, she said, one of the ways women made their voices heard in academia was by obtaining the status of what she called the "honorary male...
...this mild-mannered scholar has recently entered the forefront of one of academia's most heated and prolonged debates, a debate about the very nature of literature and the reasons for studying...
...this mild-mannered scholar has recently entered the forefront of one of academia's most heated and prolonged debates, a debate about the very nature of literature and the reasons for studying...
...Lindi grew up in South Africa and Australia. "My dad is an academic, but is more of an action-academic since he combines community work and action with academia," Lindi says. "He began an institution to promote nonracial relationships--this was all going on during apartheid." Though the Doveys have deep roots in South Africa, subtle pressures from the apartheid regime eventually prompted her parents to move to Australia when she was three. From then on, Lindi's family shuttled back and forth between the two countries about every two years, drawn back by her parents' desire to help South...