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Beyond the Culture Wars Gerald Graff (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Beyond the Culture Wars By Gerald Graff (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Beyond the Culture Wars by Gerald Graff (University of Illinois at Chicago)


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"Graff offers a highly readable and down-to-earth perspective on some of the most ballyhooed issues in higher education today. . . . By encouraging us to argue together, he may yet help us to reason together."-Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education by Gerald Graff (University of Illinois at Chicago)

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.

Beyond the Culture Wars Reviews

"Engaging, hopeful, and persuasive." -- Christian Science Monitor
"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
"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

About Gerald Graff (University of Illinois at Chicago)

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.

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CIN0393311139G
9780393311136
0393311139
Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education by Gerald Graff (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Used - Good
Paperback
WW Norton & Co
1994-02-02
224
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