Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education - Couverture souple

Graff, Gerald

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ISBN 10 : 0393311139 ISBN 13 : 9780393311136

Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 1993

Synopsis

Beyond the Culture War Gerald Graff takes the view that the anger and hostility over multiculturalism and the curriculum should be channelled into productive debate. He suggests that teachers, administrators and students could make use of the crisis to tackle the real problems of academic incoherence and student apathy. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

"Graff offers a highly readable and down-to-earth perspective on some of the most ballyhooed issues in higher education today. . . . By encouraging us to argue together, he may yet help us to reason together." Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Higher education should by a battleground of ideas: the real problem, Gerald Graff says, is that students are not getting more out of the battle. In this lively book, Graff argues that the "culture wars" now being fought over multiculturalism and political correctness are actually a sign of the intellectual vitality of American education? but they need to be used creatively, made part of the educational process itself.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Gerald Graff, a Professor of English and Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and 2008 President of the Modern Language Association of America, has had a major impact on teachers through such books as. Professing Literature: An Institutional History, Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education, and, most recently, Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: W. W. Norton & Company
• Date d'édition: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0393311139
• ISBN 13: 9780393311136
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 228