Political Correctness And Higher Education
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Political Correctness And Higher Education
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Author : John Lea
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-05-26
Political Correctness And Higher Education written by John Lea and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-26 with Education categories.
How many times have you heard the phrase: `it’s all political correctness gone mad!’ Do you ever wonder whether colleges and universities are really awash with trivial concerns about the use of language or whether they are actually trying to address serious concerns about discrimination and harassment? Have you ever wanted to get to the bottom of what all the fuss is about? This book is the first major study of political correctness in post compulsory education to be published in the UK. For readers in the UK unfamiliar with the nature of the controversies in US college campuses this book offers a comprehensive assessment of the key themes, including who and what was behind key campaigns. For readers in the US unfamiliar with how this cultural export has faired in the UK this book looks at the significant similarities and differences in the ways that the phrase has been used in both societies. Apart from addressing the roots of political correctness the book seeks to show how the phrase has helped to complicate the traditional boundaries between those on the political Left and those on the political Right. The book also demonstrates in clear terms how the phrase is integral to understanding key themes in cultural theory, such as postmodernism and identity politics. This book is intended to be of interest to a number of readers: Teachers working in colleges and universities; Teacher educators and student teachers working on programmes of initial teacher education; Students studying undergraduate programmes in comparative politics and/or sociology and cultural studies Finally, the book will seek to capture the reflections of prominent academics and educationalists bon both sides of the Atlantic, who have worked in environments where the phrase has impinged on aspects of their work over the last twenty five years. If you think that `political correctness’ simply amounts to what jokes you are allowed to tell in a classroom, hopefully this book will challenge you to think again.
The Myth Of Political Correctness
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Author : John K. Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1995
The Myth Of Political Correctness written by John K. Wilson and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Education categories.
The classics of Western culture are out, not being taught, replaced by second-rate and Third World texts. White males are a victimized minority on campuses across the country, thanks to affirmative action. Speech codes have silenced anyone who won't toe the liberal line. Feminists, wielding their brand of sexual correctness, have taken over. These are among the prevalent myths about higher education that John K. Wilson explodes. The phrase "political correctness" is on everyone's lips, on radio and television, and in newspapers and magazines. The phenomenon itself, however, has been deceptively described. Wilson steps into the nation's favorite cultural fray to reveal that many of the most widely publicized anecdotes about PC are in fact more myth than reality. Based on his own experience as a student and in-depth research, he shows what's really going on beneath the hysteria and alarmism about political correctness and finds that the most disturbing examples of thought policing on campus have come from the right. The image of the college campus as a gulag of left-wing totalitarianism is false, argues Wilson, created largely through the exaggeration of deceptive stories by conservatives who hypocritically seek to silence their political opponents. Many of today's most controversial topics are here: multiculturalism, reverse discrimination, speech codes, date rape, and sexual harassment. So are the well-recognized protagonists in the debate: Dinesh D'Souza, William Bennett, and Lynne Cheney, among others. In lively fashion and in meticulous detail, Wilson compares fact to fiction and lays one myth after another to rest, revealing the double standard that allows "conservative correctness" on college campuses to go unchallenged.
Debating P C
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Author : Paul Berman
language : en
Publisher: Delta
Release Date : 2011-07-27
Debating P C written by Paul Berman and has been published by Delta this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-27 with Social Science categories.
The debate over "P.C." at America's universities is the most important discussion in American education today and has grown into a major national controversy raging on the covers of our top magazines and news shows. This provocative anthology gives voice to the top thinkers of our time, liberal and conservative, as they tackle the question. From the multicultural perspective of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who argues passionately for more diversity, to the erudition of Irving Howe, who stresses the profound value of the literary canon, this exciting collection is required reading for thinking Americans . . . and for everyone concerned with the future of higher education and the shaping of young minds. Contents include: “The Big Chill? Interview with Dinesh D’Souza” by Robert MacNeil “On Differences: Modern Language Association Presidential Address 1990” by Catharine R. Stimpson “The Periphery v. the Center: The MLA in Chicago” by Roger Kimball “The Storm over the University” by John Searle “Public Imaged Limited: Political Correctness and the Media’s Big Lie” by Michael Berubé “The Value of the Canon” by Irving Howe “The Politics of Knowledge” by Edward W. Said “Whose Canon Is It, Anyway?” by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. “Why Do We Read?” by Katha Pollitt “’Speech Codes’ on the Campus and Problems of Free Speech” by Nat Hentoff “Freedom of Hate Speech” by Richard Perry and Patricia Williams “There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech and It’s a Good Thing, Too” by Stanley Fish “The Statement of the Black Faculty Caucus” by Ted Gordon and Wahneema Lubiano “Radical English” by George F. Will “Critics of Attempts to Democratize the Curriculum Are Waging a Campaign to Misrepresent the Work of Responsible Professors” by Paula Rothenberg “Multiculturalism: E Pluribus Plures” by Diane Ravitch “Multiculturalism: An Exchange” by Molefi Kete Asante “The Prospect Before Us” by Hilton Kramer “P.C. Rider” by Enrique Fernández “Diverse New World” by Cornel West “The Challenge for the Left” by Barbara Ehrenreich
The Politically Correct University
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Author : Robert Maranto
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2009
The Politically Correct University written by Robert Maranto and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Education categories.
Political correctness if one of the primary enemies of freedom of thought in higher education today, undermining our ability to acquire, transmit, and process knowledge. Political correctness limits the variation of ideas by an ideologically driven concern for hue rather than view. This volume is not simply another rant; there are good data here, along with well-crafted, hard-to-ignore logical interpretations and arguments. It is the sort of work that those who adhere to idea-limiting notions of the university will try to trivialize. That alone should make it important reading. --Michael Schwartz, president emeritus, Kent State University and Cleveland State University
To Reclaim A Legacy Of Diversity
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Author : Debra L. Schultz
language : en
Publisher: National Council for Research
Release Date : 1993
To Reclaim A Legacy Of Diversity written by Debra L. Schultz and has been published by National Council for Research this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Education, Higher categories.
Safe Enough Spaces
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Author : Michael S. Roth
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2019-08-20
Safe Enough Spaces written by Michael S. Roth and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-20 with Education categories.
From the president of Wesleyan University, a compassionate and provocative manifesto on the crises confronting higher education In this bracing book, Michael S. Roth stakes out a pragmatist path through the thicket of issues facing colleges today to carry out the mission of higher education. With great empathy, candor, subtlety, and insight, Roth offers a sane approach to the noisy debates surrounding affirmative action, political correctness, and free speech, urging us to envision college as a space in which students are empowered to engage with criticism and with a variety of ideas. Countering the increasing cynical dismissal—from both liberals and conservatives—of the traditional core values of higher education, this book champions the merits of different diversities, including intellectual diversity, with a timely call for universities to embrace boldness, rigor, and practical idealism.
Campus Politics
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Author : Jonathan Zimmerman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
Campus Politics written by Jonathan Zimmerman and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Education categories.
Universities are usually considered bastions of the free exchange of ideas, but a recent tide of demonstrations across college campuses has called this belief into question, and with serious consequences. Such a wave of protests hasn't been seen since the campus free speech demonstrations of the 1960s, yet this time it is the political Left, rather than the political Right, calling for restrictions on campus speech and freedom. And, as Jonathan Zimmerman suggests, recent campus controversies have pitted free speech against social justice ideals. The language of trauma--and, more generally, of psychology--has come to dominate campus politics, marking another important departure from prior eras. This trend reflects an increased awareness of mental health in American society writ large. But it has also tended to dampen exchange and discussion on our campuses, where faculty and students self-censor for fear of insulting or offending someone else. Or they attack each other in periodic bursts of invective, which run counter to the civility promised by new speech and conduct codes. In Campus Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know(R), Jonathan Zimmerman breaks down the dynamics of what is actually driving this recent wave of discontent. After setting recent events in the context of the last half-century of free speech campus movements, Zimmerman looks at the political beliefs of the US professorate and students. He follows this with chapters on political correctness; debates over the contested curriculum; admissions, faculty hires, and affirmative action; policing students; academic freedom and censorship; in loco parentis administration; and the psychology behind demands for trigger warnings and safe spaces. He concludes with the question of how to best balance the goals of social and racial justice with the commitment to free speech.
Illiberal Education
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Author : Dinesh D'Souza
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1991
Illiberal Education written by Dinesh D'Souza and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Education categories.
As it "illuminates the crisis of liberal education and offers proposals for reform which deserve full debate" (Morton Halperin, American Civil Liberties Union), "Illiberal Education" "documents how the politics of race and gender in our universities are rapidly eating away traditions of scholarship and reward for individual achievement" (Robert H. Bork). (Education/Teaching)
After Political Correctness
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Author : Christopher Newfield
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-02-20
After Political Correctness written by Christopher Newfield and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-20 with Social Science categories.
This book resituates the political correctness debates in the humanities branch of the academy. It contends that conservatives have tainted entire academic disciplines to cause university humanists to go from irrelevant to dangerous overnight.
If You Don T Mind My Saying So
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Author : John Calvert
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2016-08-01
If You Don T Mind My Saying So written by John Calvert and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
This is an age in which even the most honest and intelligent debate on social topics is risky. Free inquiry, which was once the pride of higher education, has almost disappeared as our politicized campuses have become one-party systems tolerating little dissent from the established orthodoxy. The ideology of multiculturalism in particular has led to demands for conformity in education and in society in general, and even threatens the liberties of Western civilization. Debate on fundamental issues has become rare, and nowhere is it rarer than in higher education, which at one time exulted in debate and in defending unpopular views. This happens because almost all institutions of higher education are today dominated by a narrow portion of the political spectrum; fashion and rigid consensus, not debate, determine campus policy. The essays in this book deal with topics that in some quarters are in questionable taste, such as why: American students rank at the bottom in international tests Celebrating diversity may be a bad idea Artificial intelligence may eliminate all human jobs Demographic change threatens Americas 2-party system Marshmallows may make kids smarter We need the common core Etc, etc. Whatever the political stance of the reader, it is my hope that they will find these essays thought-provoking.