- Author
- Spacks, Patricia Meyer, ed.
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press, New York, NY
- ISBN
- 312161271
- Table of Contents
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Introduction
ch. 1 The Professional Obligations of Classroom Teachers (Myles Brand)
ch. 2 The Political Magic of Claims to Neutral Universalisms, Or: How to Appear Fair While Converting Substantive Challenges to Political Advocacy (Troy Duster)
ch. 3 Fear and Loathing in the Classroom: Faculty and Student Rights in Comparative Context (Michael A. Olivas)
ch. 4 Choosing Voices (Ernestine Friedl)
ch. 5 A Brief History of Academic Freedom (Geoffrey R. Stone)
ch. 6 First Amendment and Civil Liberties Traditions of Academic Freedom (Nadine Strossen)
ch. 7 The Open Classroom and Its Enemies (Michael Root)
ch. 8 The New Advocacy and the Old (Gertrude Himmelfarb)
ch. 9 The New Ethicism: Beyond Poststructuralism and Identity Politics (Whitney Davis)
ch. 10 Culture and Advocacy (Louis Menand)
ch. 11 Defining "True" Knowledge: Consensus and the Growing Distrust of Faculty Activism, 1880s-1920s (Julie A. Reuben)
ch. 12 Academics, Advocacy, and the Public Schools: A View from the 1930s (Mark C. Smith)
ch. 13 A Full Circle: Advocacy and Academic Freedom in Crisis (Richard Mucahy)
ch. 14 "Judge" or "Advocate"? Scholars, War, and Protest in the Anti-Vietnam War Teach-Ins of 1965 (Tom Jehn)
ch. 15 Advocacy and Explanation: The Problems of Explaining Adversaries (John O. Voll)
ch. 16 Professional Advocates: When Is"Advocacy" Part of One's Vocation? (Michael Bérubé)
ch. 17 Feminism: A Long Memory (Carolyn G. Heilbrun)
ch. 18 Unveiling the Myth of Neutrality: Advocacy in the Feminist Classroom (Helene Moglen)
ch. 19 Academic Skepticism and the Contexts of Belief (C. Jan Swearingen)
ch. 20 Teachers, Not Advocates: Toward an Open Classroom (Jeffrey Wallen)
ch. 21 The Politics of Aesthetic Distance (Lambert Zuidervaart)
ch. 22 The Internalization of Disinterestedness (Hilde Hein)
ch. 23 The Open Secret: Dilemmas of Advocacy in the Religious Studies Classroom (Susan E. Henking)
ch. 24 "A Teacher Is Either a Witness or a Stranger" (Penny S. Gold)
ch. 25 Theory and Politics of Art History (Felicia Ackerman)
ch. 26 Be Reasonable and Do It My Way: Advocacy in the College Classroom
ch. 27 The Limits of Appropriate Advocacy (Peter Markie)
ch. 28 Some Implications of the Faculty's Obligation to Encourage Student Academic Freedom for Faculty Advocacy in the Classroom (Ernst Benjamin)
ch. 29 When Academic Speech Hits the Courtroom: How Lawyers Might Argue (and Judges Might Decide) - Three Semihypothetical Cases(Martha Chamallas, Richard Seeburger, and Peter M. Shane)
ch. 30 A Different Take on Advocacy in the Public School Classroom (Jyane E. Sbarboro)
ch. 31 Fight Training in the High School Classroom (Ray Linn)
ch. 32 Students Becoming Their Own Advocates (Judith Entes)
ch. 33 A Personal Account of a Struggle to Be Evenhanded in Teaching About Abortion (Samuel W. Calhoun)
ch. 34 Teaching College Students, Teaching Workers (Michael D. Yates)
ch. 35 What Does a Black University Advocate? Student and Faculty Viewpoints (Janice McLane)
ch. 36 Advocacy in the Classroom: The Counseling Perspective (Angela Anselmo)
ch. 37 Ethnography as Advocacy: Allowing the Voices of Women Prisoners to Speak (Shawny Anderson)
ch. 38 Advocacy in the Classroom - Or the Curriculum? A Response (Gerald Graff)
ch. 39 Afterthoughts on the Role of Advocacy in the Classroom (Andrea A. Lunsford)
Biographies
Noted literary critic Patricia Meyer Spacks has gathered together a group of both liberal and conservative professors to answer the question of whether or not a teacher can still bring passionate commitment to an idea into the classroom as a way of engaging students in a meaningful way. (From the Publisher)