Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0393311139 / Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, September 1993
Argues that conflicts over education today afford a positive change in higher education rather than a downfall, and speaks out against liberal complacency
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Higher education should by a battleground of ideas: the real problem, Gerald Graff says, is that students are not getting more out of the battle. In this lively book, Graff argues that the "culture wars" now being fought over multiculturalism and political correctness are actually a sign of the intellectual vitality of American education—but they need to be used creatively, made part of the educational process itself.
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