Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education
An essay collection that treats the culture wars not as a dead end but as a resource for teaching, arguing that conflict can become a force for intellectual renewal.
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Turning conflict itself into intellectual energy.
The book reframes conflicts on campus as opportunities to renew scholarship rather than as obstacles to it. It invites readers to reconsider the purpose of education and its public role.
Book Information
- Publisher
- W W Norton & Co Inc
- Published
- 1992-11-01
- Pages
- 224 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 14.61 x 1.91 x 22.23 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780393034240
- ISBN-10
- 0393034240
- Category
- 洋書/Education & Reference/Schools & Teaching/Education Theory/Administration
A comprehensive response to the critics of multiculturalism argues that the conflicts over education signal the intellectual vigor of American higher education and not its imminent decline.
Gerald Graff , Emeritus 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 Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind .