By All Means, Study the Founders: Notes from the Democratic Left

Autor/in	Street, Paul
Titel	By All Means, Study the Founders: Notes from the Democratic Left
Quelle	In: Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 25 (2003) 4, S.281-301 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1071-4413
DOI	10.1080/10714410390251093
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Political Affiliation; Political Issues; Whites; Minority Groups; Patriotism; Ideology; Terrorism; College Students; Moral Values; Multicultural Education; Cultural Pluralism; Politics of Education; College Presidents; Trustees; Public Officials; History Instruction; United States History; Freedom; Democracy; Democratic Values; College Role + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Politisches Interesse; Politischer Faktor; White; Weißer; Ethnische Minderheit; Patriotismus; Ideologie; Terrorismus; Collegestudent; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Multikulturelle Erziehung; Kulturpluralismus; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; College president; Hochschulpräsident; Treuhandanstalt; History lessons; Geschichtsunterricht; Freiheit; Demokratie
Abstract	A thesis concocted by right-wing ideological watchdogs and advanced with elevated urgency in the wake September 11, 2001, claims that America's college and university students are hostage to a leftist, "moral-relativist" and multiculturalist professoriat. To restore right-thinking to college campuses, the argument continues, academic authority figures (university presidents, trustees, and relevant public officials) should impose "rigorous broad-based courses" on "American history, America's founding documents and America's continuing struggle to extend and defend the principles"--freedom and democracy--"on which it was founded." Academia must resume its proper role, subverted by the post-Sixties influx of radicals and liberals, of "passing on to the next generation our legacy of freedom and democracy." Higher Education must instill new knowledge of and respect for the Founding Fathers, the Great White Men who created This Great Nation. The author of this article strongly disagrees with this viewpoint, as found, he writes, in such documents as the "notorious neo-McCarthyite pamphlet entitled "Defending Civilization: How Our Universities are Failing America and What Can Be Done About It," produced by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) and best known for its list of exactly 117 post-9-11 campus quotes and "incidents" claiming to show liberal/left academia's alliance with terrorism. The author contends that "we can note the insulting nature of the notion that students are the unwitting tools of their supposed radical professors, lacking their own reasons for opposing U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East or elsewhere. We can also note the farcical nature of the notion of a predominantly radical and primarily political academia that spends its energies propagandizing youth." (Contains 44 notes.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10