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“Fighting Imperviousness with Vulnerability:  Teaching in a Climate of Conservatism” (pdf)

The Wabash Center

Author
Weekes Schroer, Jeanine
Publisher
Teachingn Philosophy, Vol. 30, No. 2, June 2007
This essay explores challenges that arise for professors who teach critical theory in our current climate of conservatism. Specifically, it is argued that the conservative commitments to non-revolutionary change and reverence for tradition are corrupted in our current political and intellectual climate. This corruption, called "ideological imperviousness," undermines the institutional structures put in place to produce a functional educational environment that imposes an unjust vulnerability on professors and risks depriving students of the opportunity to acquire the critical skills necessary to combat their own vulnerabilities.