For and Against Diversity in Higher Education

Autor/in	Badley, Graham
Titel	For and Against Diversity in Higher Education
Quelle	In: Teaching in Higher Education, 12 (2007) 5-6, S.781-785 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1356-2517
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Cultural Pluralism; Higher Education; Democracy; Political Attitudes; Authoritarianism; Power Structure; Social Control + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kulturpluralismus; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Demokratie; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Autoritarismus; Soziale Kontrolle
Abstract	Diversity is generally discussed in terms such as "being diverse", "being unlike", "difference" and "variety". Academics, as expressive writers, try to make their understanding of a concept such as diversity as explicit as possible, as part of their discourse of giving and asking for reasons. As such, diversity may be viewed both positively and negatively. Diversity is usually regarded positively by those who see themselves as democratic, liberal, reasonable and tolerant citizens of institutional, national and, even, global communities. They believe that democracy at its best would aim politically at less suffering and more diversity. However, diversity should be judged negatively if it is presented as an idea that must be accepted by those moral, political or religious authorities who wish to impose their own views of the world. The danger here is that higher education, and society in general, may be led into tolerating the intolerant and the authoritarian. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10