Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education.

Autor/in	Kimball, Roger
Titel	Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education.
Quelle	(1990), (204 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	0-06-016190-6
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; College Faculty; Curriculum; Curriculum Development; Educational Trends; Feminism; Higher Education; Humanities Instruction; Ideology; Liberal Arts; Marxism; Moral Values; North American Culture; Political Influences; Political Issues; Politics of Education; Role of Education; Technical Writing; Trend Analysis; Western Civilization + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fakultät; Curricula; Lehrplan; Rahmenplan; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Entwicklung; Bildungsentwicklung; Feminismus; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Geisteswissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Ideologie; Marxismus; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Politischer Faktor; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsauftrag; Technical documentation; Technische Dokumentation; Trendanalyse
Abstract	This book chronicles progress in the destruction of the values, methods, and goals of traditional humanistic study. It describes recent developments in the academic study of humanities as ideologically motivated assaults on the intellectual and moral substance of Western culture. It argues that various academic interest groups have worked to overturn the curriculum, undermine the traditional intellectual and moral goals of a liberal arts education, and transform scholarly language into obscure argot unintelligible to students and the educated public. The book shows how the spirit of 1960s radicalism has installed itself at the center of American colleges and universities through the efforts of feminists, neo-Marxists, practitioners of deconstruction, and other politically motivated groups. Chapter titles include: "The Assault on the Canon,""Speaking against the Humanities,""The October Syndrome,""The Case of Paul de Man,""Deconstruction Comes to Architecture,""The New Sophistry," and "The Real Crisis in the Humanities." (Approximately 100 references) (JDD)
Anmerkungen	Harper & Row, 10 East 53rd St., New York, NY 10022 ($18.95).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC