TY  - JOUR
AU  - Maciej Bednarski
PY  - 2025
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
JF  - PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY IN HIGHER EDUCATION
IS  - 1
VL  - 7
SN  - 2578-5761
TI  - The University is Slow/er – Against Criticisms of “Slow” in “Slow Academia”
DO  - 10.3726/PTIHE.012025.0019
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1570777
N2  - In this paper I argue in the defense of the use of “slow” as a concept in the “slow Academia” accounts against its various critics and their objections. First, I discuss selected characteristics of various proposals within the “slow Academia” movement. Next, I elaborate on selected criticisms addressed at these proposals with a focus on how said criticisms seek to undermine the validity of the notion of “slow.” I pursue a claim that, contrary to said objections, the University is, in fact, slow/er and by introducing the latter term I intend to draw attention to how slowness of the University actually is built upon being slower and slowing down (in various ways which I supporte through employing perspectives of educational thinking, topology and organology). However, I am not defending any particular account of “slow Academia” – the argument pursued here is aimed at defending the use of the notion of “slow” as not only acceptable but, most of all, as a proper one to characterize and discuss temporality of the Academia.
KW  - University, slow Academia, educational thinking, topology, organology
ER  -