Classroom in conflict : teaching controversial subjects in a diverse society
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Classroom in conflict : teaching controversial subjects in a diverse society
（SUNY series in philosophy of education）
State University of New York Press, c1994
- : hard
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 181-198
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book transcends recent debates about political correctness to address the underlying problems of teaching controversial subjects in the college and university history classroom. The author criticizes both sides of the debate, rejecting, on the one hand, calls for a uniform, chronological history curriculum and, on the other hand, claims that only ethnic or racial "insiders" are qualified to teach about their communities.
In chapters on colonial, comparative, and African history, Williams applies the concept of "Gandhian truth" to historical subjects, moving through tentative and flexible perspectives to achieve a complex picture of historical episodes. And in chapters on imperialism, nationalism, racism, and the problem of "the other," he discusses the difficult and contingent nature of conceptual language. In the second half of the book, he addresses framing rules of discussion by which sensitive issues can be discussed with diverse audiences, the relationship of American pluralism to a world perspective, and what can be accomplished through an education in pluralism.
Table of Contents
Foreword
by William R. Taylor
Acknowledgments
1. One Classroom: An Introduction
2. Conflicting Views of the Classroom Revolution
3. The Teacher's Pitch and the Student Audience
4. Insiders and Outsiders
5. The Colonizer and the Colonized
6. The Uses of Comparative History
7. Teaching a Racially Sensitive Subject
8. On Understanding the South African Freedom Struggle
9. Imperialism
10. Nationalism and Racism: The Keywords
11. Structures of Argument in African History
12. The Other: The Problem of Authenticity
13. The World Context of American Pluralism
14. Learning in the Pluralist Classroom
15. The Rules of Discussion
16. In Pursuit of Pluralism
Bibliography
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"
