The right to learn resisting the right-wing attack on academic freedom

Foreword / by Irene Mulvey -- Introduction: A time for faculty to act / Valerie C. Johnson, Jennifer Ruth, and Ellen Schrecker -- Academic freedom and political repression from McCarthyism to Trump / Ellen Schrecker -- A Koch-funded racial backlash : understanding the Critical Race Theory moral pani...

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1. Verfasser: Johnson, Valerie C. (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Ruth, Jennifer (VerfasserIn), Schrecker, Ellen (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Boston Beacon Press 2024
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Zusammenfassung:Foreword / by Irene Mulvey -- Introduction: A time for faculty to act / Valerie C. Johnson, Jennifer Ruth, and Ellen Schrecker -- Academic freedom and political repression from McCarthyism to Trump / Ellen Schrecker -- A Koch-funded racial backlash : understanding the Critical Race Theory moral panic / Isaac Kamola -- The rise of educational gag orders / Jonathan Friedman, Jeremy C. Young, and James Tager -- The epistemology of ignorance and its impact on democracy and higher education / Valerie C. Johnson -- Knowledge and good community organizing can counter the "Divisive Concepts" campaign / Kevin McGruder -- Subverting the intent of the fourteenth amendment / Dennis Parker -- "Don't Say gay" and Can't be trans : behind the anti-LGBTQ+ schooling agenda / Sonnet Gabbard, Anne Mitchell, and Heather Montes Ireland -- The resolutions : mobilizing faculty senates to defend academic freedom / Jennifer Ruth -- Silence gets us nowhere : faculty responses to anti-CRT and divisive cncepts legislation / Sarah Sklaw -- Academic freedom : it's a question of job security / Helena Worthen and Joe Berry -- My battle to preserve academic freedom at the University of Florida / Sharon D. Wright Austin -- Florida faculty unions and the struggle for public education / Katie Rainwater -- Schools of education under fire / Marvin Lynn, Michael E. Dantley, and Lynn M. Gangone.
"From leaders on the frontlines of the battle for academic freedom, a first-of-its-kind response to the far right's insidious attacks on the right to learn"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
Beschreibung:vi, 225 Seiten
ISBN:9780807045152
978-0-8070-4515-2