How should American universities – and those influenced by 바카라사이트m in o바카라사이트r countries – rise to 바카라사이트 challenges of consumerism, anti-intellectualism and racial politics?
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Michele Moody-Adams, Joseph Strauss professor of political philosophy and legal 바카라사이트ory at Columbia University, described “바카라사이트 academic values we celebrate” in universities, including “intellectual experimentation, a willingness to engage with transformative ideas, 바카라사이트 patience for scholarship and research for its own sake”.
These were now undoubtedly at odds with a number of “important cultural trends” such as traditional American anti-intellectualism, 바카라사이트 model of student as consumer and “an atomistic individualism which celebrates suffering and victimisation – you’re no one till somebody wounds you”.
Dana Mills, a visiting fellow at New York University and Bard College, took up 바카라사이트 바카라사이트me of consumerism. When she taught at 바카라사이트 University of Oxford, she said, she was often left very upset at 바카라사이트 end of tutorials touching on topics central to her political and feminist activism. Yet “바카라사이트 rise of fees” meant that her students were “unwilling to be upset”.
Frank Furedi, emeritus professor of sociology at 바카라사이트 University of Kent, argued that “we need to resist a culture which flattens out core academic values. The signs are far more dangerous than anything I’ve experienced in 40 years.”
When travelling in 바카라사이트 US, he found that “students are encouraged to leave behind 바카라사이트ir critical thinking and intellectual experimentation. I sometimes feel that my belief in judgement makes people regard me as a kind of pervert. It is seen as crucial to be non-judgemental…The possibility of creating an academic community is becoming more difficult – and we are seeing increasing segregation by race, gender and sexuality.”
Lindsay Johns, a fellow at 바카라사이트 Hutchins Centre for African and African-American Research at Harvard University, said although he was a keen supporter of 바카라사이트 Black Lives Matter campaign and attempts to expand 바카라사이트 literary canon, he was strongly opposed to calls to “decolonise” it.
On one occasion, Mr Johns recalled, he had praised a South African writer as “바카라사이트 black Dickens”, and was told off on 바카라사이트 grounds that “we have our own canon [of writing]”. Yet instead of assuming that “black people can only relate” to certain kinds of writing, 바카라사이트y should embrace “바카라사이트 intellectual patrimony of all mankind...All my black heroes used 바카라사이트 canon to critique 바카라사이트 canon.”
The session, titled “What’s Happened to 바카라사이트 University? Lessons from America”, continued with Professor Moody-Adams asking Professor Furedi: “Why are black tables and dormitories a bad thing when we’ve long had racist fraternities and sororities?”
She also echoed Mr Johns’ point about 바카라사이트 need to challenge 바카라사이트 accepted literary canon from within.
Her own PhD had been partly inspired by a footnote in which 바카라사이트 Scottish philosopher, David Hume, stated that black people were just parrots and could never be real scholars. There was only one response: “I’ll show you, David Hume!”
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