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Free Speech and Liberal Education - A Plea for Intellectual Diversity and Tolerance (Hardcover)
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Free Speech and Liberal Education - A Plea for Intellectual Diversity and Tolerance (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R557
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The status of free speech and academic freedom in the nation's
colleges and universities has become an explosive issue. Reports of
disruptions and dis-invitations of speakers and a host of new
speech-inhibiting policies instituted by campus bureaucracies are
now commonplace. Critics claim that these actions and measures have
smothered the open and honest discourse inside and outside of the
classroom that is so necessary for a meaningful and vibrant
education to take place. Others consider the fears of crisis
overblown, discerning the harms as less extensive in the vast
domain of higher education than critics acknowledge. Drawing on his
extensive research, teaching, and practical experience as a free
speech and academic freedom leader at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison and nation-wide, Donald A. Downs portrays the
university as an "intellectual polis" in which free and honest
academic discourse should pervade the campus. His unique approach
addresses the experiential, empirical, strategic, and philosophical
dimensions at stake. Free Speech and Liberal Education: A Plea for
Intellectual Diversity and Tolerance dissects the nature, extent,
and causes of the speech suppression that exists, emphasizing the
need for intellectual diversity and how repression often co-exists
with counter-forces that need to be energized and mobilized in what
Downs portrays as the "embattled" status of academic free speech;
the character of the harms the new policies and actions pose to
liberal education; broader "structural and societal threats to
academic freedom; how to mobilize to protect campus freedom using
resources inside and outside of the campus; and, most importantly,
why robust free speech and academic freedom are so important to
both liberal education and the prospects of liberal democracy.
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