The Politics of Academic Freedom.
Institutional leaders, faculty, students, and the public need a better understanding of why academic freedom is essential to student learning and to a democracy characterized by open, reasoned, and vigorous political discourse.
Academic Freedom in the Wired World: Political Extremism, Corporate Power, and the University
1. Discovering Academic Freedom 2. Protecting Academic Freedom 3. Academic Freedom in the Courts 4. Academic Freedom in Time of Crisis 5. Academic Research and Academic Freedom 6. Academic Freedom and Artistic Freedom 7. Academic Freedom in Cyberspace 8. Whose Academic Freedom? 9. Bias, Balance, and Beyond: New Threats to Academic Freedom 10. Academic Freedom in Perspective Notes Index
Historias de mi barrio: contemporary art in a community at high risk of social exclusion
Abstract Historias de mi barrio is a piece of pedagogic research aimed at highlighting the way art can articulate the relationship between the educational context and a neighbourhood at high risk of social exclusion. The starting point for this study was to ask whether this type of research, centred around the arts, was suitable in complex contexts and whether it might eventually lead to pedagogic improvement. The results gathered, and indeed the work carried out by the artists and university lecturers involved, together with pupils 6–12 years old and their instructors in a state school, provide evidence of a positive answer – and notably of the necessity of knowing about the socio-economic reality of the student cohort when planning learning projects and of the importance of the arts as a crucial element in education.