Love the questions: University education and enlightenment
by Angus, Ian
fromSemaphore series
What are universities good for? This question has generated intense debate, particularly since the culture wars and Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind. Where radicals once critiqued universities' elitism, that argument has recently been turned on is head: many academ…
Love the Questions is a provocative look at the central questions facing university education today. Drawing on decades of experience in the scholarly trenches, Ian Angus considers the future of academic freedom in an increasingly corporate university setting, the role of techno…
Framed in the context of a world in which academic freedom is often jeopardized, or criticized by outside social forces, Academic Freedom: Autonomy, Challenges and Conformationsets out to echo the voices of faculty who have encountered challenges to academic freedom within their…
Framed in the context of a world in which academic freedom is often jeopardized, or criticized by outside social forces, Academic Freedom : Autonomy, Challenges and Conformationsets out to echo the voices of faculty who have encountered challenges to academic freedom within thei…
Framed in the context of a world in which academic freedom is often jeopardized, or criticized by outside social forces, Academic Freedom: Autonomy, Challenges and Conformationsets out to echo the voices of faculty who have encountered challenges to academic freedom within their…
Framed in the context of a world in which academic freedom is often jeopardized, or criticized by outside social forces, Academic Freedom: Autonomy, Challenges and Conformationsets out to echo the voices of faculty who have encountered challenges to academic freedom within their…
"By integrating his own biography into a critique of the global politics of knowledge production, Yankah, through a collection of essays, interrogates critical issues confronting the Humanities that spawn intellectual hegemonies and muffle African voices. Using the example of Gh…
"This book explores the history of the debate, from 1915 to the present, about the meaning of academic freedom, particularly as concerns the limits of political activism on the college campus. The book introduces readers to the origins of the modern research university in the Un…
This book explores the history of the debate, from 1915 to the present, about the meaning of academic freedom, particularly as concerns political activism on the college campus. The book introduces readers to the origins of the modern research university in the United States, th…