Why Higher Education Should Have a Leftist Bias [electronic resource] /
Lazere, D.author.
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- 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.
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.
Higher education.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Political sociology.
Teaching.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Education—Philosophy.
Higher Education.
Philosophy of Education.
Political Sociology.
Teaching and Teacher Education.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Educational Philosophy.