Donald Alexander Downs

Arms and the University

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Demonstrates how some military presence on campus can contribute to the diversity of ideas and the education of all students.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 931g
• ISBN-13: 9780521192323
• ISBN-10: 0521192323
• Artikelnr.: 34541598

Autorenporträt

Donald Alexander Downs is Meiklejohn Professor of Political Science, Law, and Journalism at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of five books: Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community, and the First Amendment; The New Politics of Pornography; More than Victims: Battered Women, the Syndrome Society, and the Law; Cornell '69: Liberalism and the Crisis of the American University; and Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus. He is the co-founder and director of the Wisconsin Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy at the University of Wisconsin and a frequent contributor to local, state, national and international media.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. A Normative and Pedagogical Framework: 1. The closing of the
university mind: the military/university gap and the problem of civic and
liberal education; 2. Education in the regime: how a military presence can
enhance civic and liberal education; Part II. ROTC and the University: 3.
ROTC and the university: an introduction; 4. ROTC and the Ivies: before the
storm; 5. ROTC and the Ivies: the divorce; 6. ROTC, Columbia, and the Ivy
League: Sisyphus renews his quest to renew a troubled relationship; 7.
Post-DADT: Sisyphus nears the top of the mountain; 8. Pedagogy and military
presence: the educational influence of student-soldiers in their own words;
9. Winning hearts and minds?: The consequences of military presence for
non-military students; Part III. Military History Examined: 10. Military
history: an endangered or protected species?; 11. Half empty or half full?:
Military historians' perspectives on the status of military history and the
leading departments; 12. Military presence in security studies: political
realism (re)considered; 13. Security studies in the wake of the Cold War
university: paragons of productive fiction, or throwing the baby out with
the bathwater?; Part IV. Concluding Thoughts: 14. Conclusion: placing the
military in the university.