Academic Freedom

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Edubusiness and Edutainment

Edubusiness and Edutainment

Wealthy Benefactors and Sporting Contributions to the Campus Party

From: Degrees of Failure

The rise of the corporate edutainment university portends something new and different that goes well beyond the existence of a social side in college life. Changes in the policies and programs … 33 $3.30 Add
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Everything You Know About Schools is Wrong

Everything You Know About Schools is Wrong

From: Weapons of Mass Instruction

Forced schooling seduces the trapped into believing that inert knowledge, memorized fact bits and sequences is the gold standard of intellectual achievement. Learning to connect those bits into … 26 $2.60 Add
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Fat Stanley and the Lancaster Amish

Fat Stanley and the Lancaster Amish

From: Weapons of Mass Instruction

Fat Stanley told me he had to cut school almost every day because he didn’t want to end up like me, working for someone else. He was 13 when he said that to me. An Amish man in Ohio told me … 9 $0.90 Add
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Fisherman's Son
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Fisherman’s Son

From: Seven Days in Halifax

In this chapter, Ashe describes the events of Day Four of Halifax’s 1970 “Encounter on Urban Environment,” focusing on students. Discussions highlighted racist and classist … 4 $0.40 Add
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Foreword

Foreword

From: No Debate

From No Debate: How Israel lobby groups tried to curb free speech at York University 5 $0.50 Add
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Giving and Taking Offense

Giving and Taking Offense

Civility, Respect, and Academic Freedom

From: Academic Freedom in Conflict

Jamie Cameron concludes the book with an examination of the implications for academic freedom of the growing movement for civil discourse. She examines American and Canadian university respectful … 25 $2.50 Add
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Hector Isn’t the Problem

Hector Isn’t the Problem

From: Weapons of Mass Instruction

I was the official New York State Teacher of the Year when I quit on the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal, because I couldn’t stand to hurt children any more. 7 $0.70 Add
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Incident at Highland High

Incident at Highland High

From: Weapons of Mass Instruction

Last January, a sixteen-year-old German girl — shy and well-behaved — was arrested in her home in Nuremberg, Germany, by fifteen armed policemen. Her crime was homeschooling. Reading … 16 $1.60 Add
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Institutional Autonomy and Academic Freedom in the Managed University

Institutional Autonomy and Academic Freedom in the Managed University

From: Academic Freedom in Conflict

Len Findlay looks broadly at the changing character of the contemporary university, and how university autonomy has become a threat to academic freedom rather than a means to ensure it. As … 16 $1.60 Add
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Intensifying Controversy: March-May 2009

Intensifying Controversy: March-May 2009

From: No Debate

From No Debate: How Israel lobby groups tried to curb free speech at York University 64 $6.40 Add
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Introduction
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Introduction

What Are We Doing Here?

From: The Elective Mind

The introduction lays out the intent of the book, a long essay reflecting on the value of elective courses in university, specifically philosophy, as an opportunity for shared, social learning … 31 $3.10 Add
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Involvement of the Federal Government and SSHRC

Involvement of the Federal Government and SSHRC

From: No Debate

From No Debate: How Israel lobby groups tried to curb free speech at York University 41 $4.10 Add
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Lessons and Recommendations

Lessons and Recommendations

From: No Debate

From No Debate: How Israel lobby groups tried to curb free speech at York University 6 $0.60 Add