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We’ll describe the contours of the underlying beliefs, what their components are, and how the incentives they have created directly and indirectly shape the academic endeavor. We’ll explore how these assumptions have made academic freedom no longer particularly free.
Nov 3, 2020 · Non-identity-centered perspectives, regardless of how worthy they might be, are viewed as less legitimate or even illegitimate. All of these beliefs are well intentioned and have arisen in response to important historical and continuing injustices.
Our goal in this book is to describe the state of affairs in the academy and the ways in which all arms of the academic enterprise are affected.
Jan 12, 2021 · As we argue in our new book, Unassailable Ideas, many of these beliefs have in recent decades migrated from the edge of academia to its very center. Three of these beliefs in particular now shape how the academy conceptualizes research, teaching and its administrative role, a phenomenon that restricts how classes are taught, which questions can ...
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Mar 8, 2023 · Based on: Unassailable Ideas: How Unwritten Rules and Social Media Shape Discourse in American Higher Education, by Redstone Ilana and Villasenor John. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 208 pp. $32.95 cloth. ISBN: 9780190078065.
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Unassailable Ideas: Explores and sheds new light on the interaction of social media with campus climate. Offers an extensive set of case studies illustrating the ways in which academic discourse is constrained.
Sep 22, 2020 · In "Unassailable Ideas," Ilana Redstone and John Villasenor examine the dominant belief system on American campuses, its uncompromising enforcement through social media, and the consequences for higher education.
