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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Table of Contents:
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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.
