What's Liberal about the Liberal Arts Classroom Politics and "Bias" in Higher Education?
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2006
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-06037-9 (ISBN)
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-06037-9 (ISBN)
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A compelling defense of liberalism on campus and off.
At least since the publication of Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, higher education in the United States has been described as an institution in crisis, infected by liberal bias, hemmed in by political correctness, and undermined by an erosion of standards. This portrait has been accepted by millions of people outside academeand a surprising number of college professors and students as well. But is it accurate?
What's Liberal about the Liberal Arts? offers a definitive rebuttal to conservative activists' most incendiary claims about American universities. In his analyses of faculty and students, critiques of ideologues left and right, and behind-the-scenes accounts of his own courses, Michael Berube makes a supple case for liberalism itselffor the cause of universal human rights, for free and unfettered inquiry, and for the classically liberal insistence that no single faction should attain dominance over all of a society's civil institutions.
At least since the publication of Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, higher education in the United States has been described as an institution in crisis, infected by liberal bias, hemmed in by political correctness, and undermined by an erosion of standards. This portrait has been accepted by millions of people outside academeand a surprising number of college professors and students as well. But is it accurate?
What's Liberal about the Liberal Arts? offers a definitive rebuttal to conservative activists' most incendiary claims about American universities. In his analyses of faculty and students, critiques of ideologues left and right, and behind-the-scenes accounts of his own courses, Michael Berube makes a supple case for liberalism itselffor the cause of universal human rights, for free and unfettered inquiry, and for the classically liberal insistence that no single faction should attain dominance over all of a society's civil institutions.
Michael Bérubé is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature at Penn State University and a former president of the Modern Language Association. From 2010 to 2017, he served as the director of Penn State’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities. He is the author of ten books, including What’s Liberal About the Liberal Arts Classroom Politics and “Bias” in Higher Education and Life As We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child. He lives in State College, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Janet Lyon, and their son, Jamie Bérubé.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.9.2006 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 165 x 241 mm |
| Gewicht | 668 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung |
| ISBN-10 | 0-393-06037-3 / 0393060373 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-393-06037-9 / 9780393060379 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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