| 期刊全称 | Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity | | 期刊简称 | Confronting the Fear | | 影响因子2023 | Joanna Williams | | 视频video | | | 发行地址 | Provides a compelling and provocative attack on the establishment that exposes the erosion of academic freedom in universities worldwide.Highlights the importance of open discussion within higher educ | | 学科分类 | Palgrave Critical University Studies | | 图书封面 |  | | 影响因子 | Academic freedom is increasingly being threatened by a stifling culture of conformity in higher education that is restricting individual academics, the freedom of academic thought and the progress of knowledge – the very foundations upon which academia and universities are built. .Once, scholars demanded academic freedom to critique existing knowledge and to pursue new truths. Today, while fondness for the rhetoric of academic freedom remains, it is increasingly criticised as an outdated and elitist concept by students and lecturers alike and called into question by a number of political and intellectual trends such as feminism, critical theory and identity politics. .This provocative and compelling book traces the demise of academic freedom within the context of changing ideas about the purpose of the university and the nature of knowledge. The book argues that a challenge to this culture of conformity and censorship and a defence of academic free speech are needed for critique to be possible and for the intellectual project of evaluating existing knowledge and proposing new knowledge to be meaningful. This book is that challenge and a passionate call to arms for the power of acad | | Pindex | Book 20161st edition |
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