Why higher education should have a leftist bias /
"Presenting a thoughtful justification for the academic left in American higher education, Donald Lazere argues that in order 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...
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New York, New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2013]
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| Series: | Education, politics, and public life
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 8 | |a 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. | |
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