Why Higher Education Should Have a Leftist Bias

Name: Why Higher Education Should Have a Leftist Bias
Author: D. Lazere

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Paperback, blz. | Engels

Palgrave Macmillan US | e druk, 2013

ISBN13: 9781349468027

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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.

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ISBN13:9781349468027

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:paperback

Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US

Serie:Education, Politics and Public Life

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Introduction: The Dilemma of Culture-Wars Polemics: Distinguishing Valuable Originals from Gross Parodies PART I: COUNTERING THE BIAS OF BUSINESS AS USUAL 1. Conservatism as the Unmarked Norm 2. Restricted-Code Conservatism 3. Socialism as a Cognitive Alternative PART II: COUNTERING THE CONSERVATIVE COUNTER-ESTABLISHMENT 4. The Conservative Attack Machine: Admit Nothing, Deny Everything, Launch Counterattack 5. Right-Wing Deconstruction: Mimicry and False Equivalences 6. From Partisan Review to Fox News: Neoconservatives As Defenders Of Intellectual Standards 7. Conservative Culture-War Scholarship: Fair and Balanced? PART III: RESPONSIBLE LEFTIST TEACHING 8. Balancing Commitment and Fairness: Giving Conservatives Their Best Shot 9. A Case Study: Conservative versus Leftist Views on College Costs 10. The Radical Humanistic Canon Conclusion: An Appeal to Conservative Readers

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