Subject: Re: Job opportunity at Lancaster University (UK) pure poetry
From: Eliot Handelman (eliot@generation.net)
Date: Mon Aug 20 2007 - 23:35:47 EDT
Lisa Whistlecroft wrote:
> It's really rather funny to see such activity as a result of a job
> advert. Must be the summer...
I don't usually wish to protest about these sorts of things, but I find
the flow of factory talk in these job announcements
deadening & I'm expressing a view that I would not wish this kind of
leaden pompousness that is
supposed to attract musical sages, such as would be in the all-around
interest of the art to hire. to be associated with
music at all.
>
> Like Kevin says - it's a university.
>
Things are changing rapidly.
> But just in case anyone is really having bother with the language,
> here are a couple of specific responses:
>
>
> Ambasador? Oh for crying out loud! It's a 9-month teaching associate
> job. They want someone who can start in October. They want someone
> with a PhD. I guess they expect that that someone has probably not
> had a full-time lecturing job before.
Incorrect. They want a musical sage who will revolutionize the minds of
everyone in the department & bring about
a flourishing of art & thought such as no one ever dreamt about. They
will lay down their mice & sit at the new appointee's
feet, with their legs folded , asking shy questions about the nature of
music, and they will be answered. And they are
offering 37,000 pounds a year plus free golf court castle & sausages.
>
>
> And in my book, any teacher who doesn't explain to students how they
> are going to assess what their students do should not be teaching them.
That leads to the problem of a curriculum chosen because it can be
graded, as opposed to what's in the student's best interests.
-- eliot
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