In the heated academic warfare over multiculturalism and the curriculum, Gerald Graff takes a daring stand. He suggests that the anger and hostility over political correctness should be channelled into productive debate and that teachers, administrators and students alike could actually make good use of the crisis to tackle the real problems of academic incoherence and student apathy.
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An Unnecessary War:
When Jacques Derrida announced to what he saw as a patriarchal Western-based hegemony that the very basis of a two millennia tradition of belief in the essential goodness and regularity of the human soul was a fiction, it did not take long for the ripples to filter down into America's schools. The culprit that Derrida saw was nothing less than the Western illusion that paradox, ambiguity, and conflict lay subtly simmering within the pages of every text that seemingly attested to that illusion. In BEYOND THE... more info
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