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In Plato's Cave (Paperback, New Ed)
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In Plato's Cave (Paperback, New Ed)
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In this delightful and candid memoir, Alvin Kernan recalls his life
as a student, professor, provost, and dean during a distinguished
career in some of higher education's most hallowed halls. With his
customary wit and insight, Kernan recounts his experiences at
Columbia, Williams, Oxford, Yale, and Princeton in the company of
an array of fascinating colleagues. And he describes from an
insider's point of view how colleges and universities in the second
half of the twentieth century have been transformed in radical
ways. Against the background of what it was like to work and teach
in turbulent decades of change, Kernan details the broader
educational battles in which he became embroiled. He discusses the
struggle for equality of opportunity for women and minorities; the
questioning of administrative and intellectual authority; the
appearance of deconstructive types of theory; the technological
shift from printed to electronic information; the politicization of
the classroom; and much more. His vividly remembered account is not
only a unique personal story, it is a thought-provoking history
that brims with insight into what has been won and lost in the
culture wars.
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