Why Higher Education Should Have A Leftist Bias
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Why Higher Education Should Have A Leftist Bias
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Author : D. Lazere
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-12-11
Why Higher Education Should Have A Leftist Bias written by D. Lazere and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-11 with Education categories.
Presenting a thoughtful justification for the left in American education, Donald Lazere argues that to teach students rhetoric and critical thinking, key components of a humanist education, educators must discuss and teach students to grapple with the conservative bias in academia, the media, and politics that is considered to be the status quo.
Why Higher Education Should Have A Leftist Bias
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Author : D. Lazere
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2013-12-11
Why Higher Education Should Have A Leftist Bias written by D. Lazere and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-11 with Education categories.
Presenting a thoughtful justification for the left in American education, Donald Lazere argues that to teach students rhetoric and critical thinking, key components of a humanist education, educators must discuss and teach students to grapple with the conservative bias in academia, the media, and politics that is considered to be the status quo.
Why Are Professors Liberal And Why Do Conservatives Care
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Author : Neil Gross
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2013-04-09
Why Are Professors Liberal And Why Do Conservatives Care written by Neil Gross and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-09 with Education categories.
Neil Gross shows that the U.S. academy’s liberal reputation has exerted a self-selecting influence on young liberals, while deterring promising conservatives. His study sheds new light on both academic life and American politics, where the conservative movement was built in part around opposition to the “liberal elite” in higher education.
Let S Be Reasonable
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Author : Jonathan Marks
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2023-01-31
Let S Be Reasonable written by Jonathan Marks and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-31 with Education categories.
A conservative college professor's compelling defense of liberal education Not so long ago, conservative intellectuals such as William F. Buckley Jr. believed universities were worth fighting for. Today, conservatives seem more inclined to burn them down. In Let's Be Reasonable, conservative political theorist and professor Jonathan Marks finds in liberal education an antidote to this despair, arguing that the true purpose of college is to encourage people to be reasonable—and revealing why the health of our democracy is at stake. Drawing on the ideas of John Locke and other thinkers, Marks presents the case for why, now more than ever, conservatives must not give up on higher education. He recognizes that professors and administrators frequently adopt the language and priorities of the left, but he explains why conservative nightmare visions of liberal persecution and indoctrination bear little resemblance to what actually goes on in college classrooms. Marks examines why advocates for liberal education struggle to offer a coherent defense of themselves against their conservative critics, and demonstrates why such a defense must rest on the cultivation of reason and of pride in being reasonable. More than just a campus battlefield guide, Let's Be Reasonable recovers what is truly liberal about liberal education—the ability to reason for oneself and with others—and shows why the liberally educated person considers reason to be more than just a tool for scoring political points.
Political Literacy In Composition And Rhetoric
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Author : Donald Lazere
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 2015-07-20
Political Literacy In Composition And Rhetoric written by Donald Lazere and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-20 with Education categories.
"A critique of the postmodern pluralist faction in composition and rhetoric that has led these disciplines to value diverse student voices over the teaching of critical thinking and writing, this book explains why political literacy is necessary and how instructors may teach it"--
Lowering Higher Education
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Author : James Cote
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2011-01-15
Lowering Higher Education written by James Cote and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-15 with Education categories.
What happens to the liberal arts and science education when universities attempt to sell it as a form of job training? In Lowering Higher Education, a follow-up to their provocative 2007 book Ivory Tower Blues, James E. Côté and Anton L. Allahar explore the subverted 'idea of the university' and the forces that have set adrift the mission of these institutions. Côté and Allahar connect the corporatization of universities to a range of contentious issues within higher education, from lowered standards and inflated grades to the overall decline of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences instruction. Lowering Higher Education points to a fundamental disconnect between policymakers, who may rarely set foot in contemporary classrooms, and the teachers who must implement their educational policies—which the authors argue are poorly informed—on a daily basis. Côté and Allahar expose stakeholder misconceptions surrounding the current culture of academic disengagement and supposed power of new technologies to motivate students. While outlining what makes the status quo dysfunctional, Lowering Higher Education also offers recommendations that have the potential to reinvigorate liberal education.
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.
"Half a century ago, universities were the institutions characterized by vibrant free inquiry and free speech. Today something close to the opposite is the case. The Politically Correct University shows how the universities' quest for 'diversity' has produced in too many departments a stifling uniformity of thought. Required reading for those who want American universities to eschew political correctness."--Michael Barone, resident fellow, American Enterprise Institute.
Compromising Scholarship
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Author : George A. Yancey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Compromising Scholarship written by George A. Yancey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Christians categories.
Conservative and liberal commentators alike have long argued that social bias exists in American higher education. In Compromising Scholarship, George Yancey conducts the first systematic attempt to substantiate those arguments of social bias in higher education. Yancey embarks on a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the social biases and attitudes of faculties in American universitiesùsurveying professors across the disciplines from political science to experimental biology and then examining the blogs of 42 sociology professors. In so doing, he finds that politicallyùand, even more so, religiouslyùconservative academics are at a distinct disadvantage in institutions of higher education, threatening the free exchange of ideas to which they aspire and leaving many scientific inquiries unexplored. --Book Jacket.
Professors And Their Politics
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Author : Neil Gross
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2014-07-15
Professors And Their Politics written by Neil Gross and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-15 with Education categories.
Despite assumptions in some quarters of widespread academic radicalism, professors are politically liberal but on the whole democratically tolerant and are focused more on the business of research and teaching than on trying to change the world. Professors and Their Politics tackles the assumption that universities are ivory towers of radicalism with the potential to corrupt conservative youth. Neil Gross and Solon Simmons gather the work of leading sociologists, historians, and other researchers interested in the relationship between politics and higher education to present evidence to the contrary. In eleven meaty chapters, contributors describe the political makeup of American academia today, consider the causes of its liberal tilt, discuss the college experience for politically conservative students, and delve into historical debates about professorial politics. Offering readable, rigorous analyses rather than polemics, Professors and Their Politics yields important new insights into the nature of higher education institutions while challenging dogmas of both the left and the right.
The Still Divided Academy
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Author : Stanley Rothman
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2010-12-16
The Still Divided Academy written by Stanley Rothman and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-16 with Education categories.
The Still Divided Academy is a wonderful examination of the academic community that shows their inner workings by addressing a broad range of issues including: academic politics, tenure, perceived and real political imbalance, academic freedom, and diversity. Administrators, professors, and students have very different priorities, values, and expectations and therefore, often have conflicting opinions on these issues. Drawing on data collected in a specially commissioned public opinion survey as well as other recent research on higher education, Rothman, Kelly-Woessner, and Woessner, create an incredibly readable presentation of both the similarities and differences between those running our universities and those attending them. The authors manage to remain impressively neutral; instead they give us a fuller perspective of the people on our college campuses.