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Tiêu đề
Inside the politicized classroom: A student's account of a seminar on Indian treaty rights
Tác giả
Holland M.W.
Năm xuất bản
1992
Source title
Academic Questions
Số trích dẫn
0
DOI
10.1007/BF02734893
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Tóm tắt
The Indian treaty rights seminar faculty taught me almost nothing about the subject for which they had ostensibly convened the seminar. The did not even define their terms. That is, we students were never instructed as to what an Indian treaty is, nor were we shown how the courts extrapolated the controversial new Indian rights from certain treaty stipulations. What they did teach is that undemonstrable assertions, at least when they are grounded in correct politics, constitute legitimate support for scholarly conclusions. On the other hand, solid facts that undermine correct politics can be dismissed by "view[ing them] within the context of a larger view." Furthermore, the faculty, who were supposedly dedicated to diversity, demonstrated in word and deed that people whose experiences and perspectives do not support political orthodoxy should be ridiculed and despised or at least ignored. To what degree the other students in the seminar accepted the faculty's ideologically motivated behavior as valid scholarly praxis, I do not know. I suspect that several of them have accepted it. But such a mockery of liberal education ought to be of concern to academics even if, as was true in my case, the politically correct classroom serves only to demoralize. © 1992 Springer.
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Springer-Verlag
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Scopus