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The Value of Pluralism in the Academy
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The problem of self-censorship by faculty and students at universities is a persistent challenge in the university setting, just as it is in society more broadly as discussed by the authors, and appropriate institutional protections and policies can help protect against the censorious suppression of unorthodox views.Abstract:
Sustaining a climate that encourages free speech and free inquiry is a persistent challenge in the university setting, just as it is in society more broadly. Appropriate institutional protections and policies can help protect against the censorious suppression of unorthodox views, but the problem of self-censorship by faculty and students alike might be a harder problem to solve. Creating safeguards so that dissenters from local orthodoxies do not fear reprisals is only a first step toward reducing the temptation to self-censorship. Constructing a pluralistic intellectual environment and nurturing a culture of critical dialogue and skeptical inquiry will help draw out a more robust exchange of ideas.read more
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Developing participant intellectual humility through technology delivered instruction – A proposed model
TL;DR: This paper proposed an intervention model as a pedagogical tool to develop intellectual humility through the lens of Karl Weick's (1995) sense-making paradigm, and discussed the digital learning program Perspectives™ as an intervention method for instructional delivery.
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Communism, conformity, and civil liberties : a cross-section of the nation speaks its mind
TL;DR: Stouffer as discussed by the authors explored attitudes of Americans against a backdrop of a history of intolerance that dates back to the Know-nothing party before the Civil War and extending through the Ku Klux Klan after World War I. The overall results show a markedly strong relationship between perception of high national risk and personal intolerance of differences.
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The Dimensions of Tolerance: What Americans Believe About Civil Liberties
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Democratization and Political Tolerance in Seventeen Countries: A Multi-level Model of Democratic Learning
TL;DR: The authors synthesize the essential lessons of these two literatures into a general model of democratic learning which argues that exposure to the rough-and-tumble of democratic politics should enhance political tolerance.
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Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care
TL;DR: Gross argues that "political typing" plays an overlooked role in shaping academic liberalism as mentioned in this paper and explains how academic liberalism became a self-reproducing phenomenon, and why Americans on both the left and right should take notice.