You Can't Teach That!: The Battle Over University Classrooms
Whittington, Keith E.
- 出版商: Polity
- 出版日期: 2024-05-20
- 售價: $990
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $941
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 176
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 1509564535
- ISBN-13: 9781509564538
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商品描述
Who controls what is taught in American universities - professors or politicians?
The answer is far from clear but suddenly urgent. Unprecedented efforts are now underway to restrict what ideas can be promoted and discussed in university classrooms. Professors at public universities have long assumed that their freedom to teach is unassailable and that there were firm constitutional protections shielding them from political interventions. Those assumptions might always have been more hopeful than sound. A battle over the control of the university classroom is now brewing, and the courts will be called upon to establish clearer guidelines as to what - if any - limits legislatures might have in dictating what is taught in public universities.
In this path-breaking book, Keith Whittington argues that the First Amendment imposes meaningful limits on how government officials can restrict the ideas discussed on university campuses. In clear and accessible prose, he illuminates the legal status of academic freedom in the United States and shows how existing constitutional doctrine can be deployed to protect unbridled free inquiry.
The answer is far from clear but suddenly urgent. Unprecedented efforts are now underway to restrict what ideas can be promoted and discussed in university classrooms. Professors at public universities have long assumed that their freedom to teach is unassailable and that there were firm constitutional protections shielding them from political interventions. Those assumptions might always have been more hopeful than sound. A battle over the control of the university classroom is now brewing, and the courts will be called upon to establish clearer guidelines as to what - if any - limits legislatures might have in dictating what is taught in public universities.
In this path-breaking book, Keith Whittington argues that the First Amendment imposes meaningful limits on how government officials can restrict the ideas discussed on university campuses. In clear and accessible prose, he illuminates the legal status of academic freedom in the United States and shows how existing constitutional doctrine can be deployed to protect unbridled free inquiry.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
誰控制著美國大學裡的教學內容 - 教授還是政治家？
答案並不明確，但卻變得迫切起來。目前正在進行前所未有的努力，以限制大學課堂上可以推廣和討論的觀點。公立大學的教授們長期以來一直認為他們的教學自由是不可動搖的，並且有堅實的憲法保護，使他們免受政治干預。這些假設可能一直都更多地是希望而非實際情況。一場關於大學課堂控制權的戰爭正在醞釀中，法院將被要求制定更清晰的指南，以確定立法機構在指導公立大學教學內容方面是否有任何限制。
在這本開創性的書中，基思·惠廷頓（Keith Whittington）主張，第一修正案對政府官員如何限制大學校園討論的觀點施加了有意義的限制。他以清晰易懂的文字闡明了學術自由在美國的法律地位，並展示了現有的憲法原則如何可以用來保護無拘無束的自由探究。
作者簡介
Keith E. Whittington is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University and a leading expert on academic freedom and American constitutional law and politics. Among his prize-winning books is Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech. He is the founding chair of the Academic Freedom Alliance and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Keith E. Whittington是普林斯頓大學的William Nelson Cromwell政治學教授，也是學術自由和美國憲法法律與政治的領先專家。他的著作中包括獲獎的《Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech》。他是學術自由聯盟的創始主席，並擔任胡佛研究所的訪問學者。
