Higher education should by a battleground of ideas: the real problem, Gerald Graff says, is that students are not getting more out of the battle. In this lively book, Graff argues that the "culture wars" now being fought over multiculturalism and political correctness are actually a sign of the intellectual vitality of American education-but they need to be used creatively, made part of the educational process itself.
Gerald Graff, a 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.
Higher education should by a battleground of ideas: the real problem, Gerald Graff says, is that students are not getting more out of the battle. In this lively book, Graff argues that the "culture wars" now being fought over multiculturalism and political correctness are actually a sign of the intellectual vitality of American education-but they need to be used creatively, made part of the educational process itself.
Gerald Graff, a 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.
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.
"Everyone to whom universities matter should read Beyond the Culture Wars... There could be no more tactful and well-informed guide than Mr. Graff to the actualities of university life... A passionate tribute to the extraordinary difficulty and worth of learning, particularly in a climate of competing demands." -- Nina Auerbach - New York Times Book Review "Engaging, hopeful, and persuasive." -- Christian Science Monitor "Graff provides a useful analysis of the widespread incoherence in university education today, and even more importantly, some practical proposals for overcoming it. His idea of learning communities, based not on artificial consensus but on engaged argument, is most promising." -- Robert Bellah "Effectively explodes a whole corpus of myths that have become the conventional media wisdom about the 'crisis' in education." -- Chicago Tribune "Graff argues eloquently for a curriculum that includes political debates and multicultural texts... He wisely notes that the term 'common culture' is always evolving." -- Publishers Weekly
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