Keywords:
Critical pedagogy
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Canon (Literature)
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College teachers Tenure
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Education, Higher Political aspects
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English philology Study and teaching (Higher)
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Education, Higher Aims and objectives
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Humanities Study and teaching (Higher)
Description / Table of Contents:
In an age when innovative scholarly work is at an all-time high, the academy itself is being rocked by structural change. Funding is plummeting. Tenure increasingly seems a prospect for only the elite few. Ph.D.'s are going begging for even adjunct work. Into this tumult steps Cary Nelson, with a no- holds-barred account of recent developments in higher education. Eloquent and witty, Manifesto of a Tenured Radical urges academics to apply the theoretical advances of the last twenty years to an analysis of their own practices and standards of behavior. In the process, Nelson offers a devasta
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vi, 243 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0585330751
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9780585330754
Series Statement:
Cultural front
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=2081673
DDC:
378.73
Language:
English
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-237) and index
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Against English as it was : theory and the politics of the disciplineMulticulturalism without guarantees : from anthologies to the social text -- Relativism, politics, and ethics : writing literary history in the shadow of Poststructuralism -- Always already cultural studies : academic conferences and a manifesto -- Progressive pedagogy without apologies : the cultural work of teaching noncanonical poetry -- Canon fodder : an evening with William Bennett, Lynne Cheney, and Dinesh D'Souza -- Hate speech and polit.
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