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The Question of Morale: Managing Happiness and Unhappiness in University Life: Searching for Happiness in University Life

The Question of Morale: Managing Happiness and Unhappiness in University Life: Searching for Happiness in University Life

The Question of Morale: Managing Happiness and Unhappiness in University Life:

The Question of Morale: Managing Happiness and Unhappiness in University Life: Searching for Happiness in University Life

by David Watson

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New. There is a comforting tale that heads of higher education institutions (HEIs) like to tell each other. "Go around your university or college," they say, "and ask the first ten people who you meet how their morale is. The response will always be 'rock-bottom.' Then ask them what they are working on. The responses will be full of life, of optimism and of enthusiasm for the task in hand." The moral of the story is that the two sets of responses don't compute; that the first is somehow unthinking and ideological, and the second unguarded and sincere. The thesis of this book is that the contradictory answers may well compute more effectively than is acknowledged: that the culture of higher education and the mesh of psychological contracts, or "deals," that make it up make much of the current discourse about happiness and unhappiness in contemporary life look simplistic and banal. In particular, the much-vaunted "science of happiness" may not have much to say to us. There is also a potential link between the Manichean discourse about morale and our wider culture's approach to happiness. Both normally deal in extremes, and much more rarely in graduations. Why is so much discourse about contemporary higher education structured around (real and imagined) unhappiness? How does this connect with the realities of life within (and just outside) the institutions? Does it matter, and, if so, what should we be doing about it? Based on historical, sociological and philosophical analysis, this book offers some answers to these questions.

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The Question of Morale: Managing Happiness and Unhappiness in University Life: Searching for Happiness in University Life
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David Watson
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0335235603
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9780335235605
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2009-10

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