What's happened to the university? : a sociological exploration of its infantilisation / Frank Furedi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Furedi, Frank, 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges--Sociological aspects.

Universities and colleges.

College students--Conduct of life.

College students.

Physical Description:

viii, 205 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

The radical transformation that universities are undergoing today is no less far-reaching than the upheavals that it experienced in the 1960s. However today, when almost 50 per cent of young people participate in higher education, what occurs in universities matters directly to the whole of society. On both sides of the Atlantic curious and disturbing events on campuses has become a matter of concern not just for academics but also for the general public. What is one to make of the growing trend of banning speakers? What's the meaning of trigger warnings, cultural appropriation, micro-aggression or safe spaces? And why are some students going around arguing that academic freedom is no big deal? What's Happened To The University? offers an answer to the questions of why campus culture is undergoing such a dramatic transformation and why the term moral quarantine refers to the infantilising project of insulating students from offence and a variety of moral harms.

Contents:

The weaponisation of emotions

The harms of the academy

Culture war

Safe space: a quarantine against judgment

Verbal purification: the diseasing of free speech

Microaggression: the disciplining of manners and thought

The quest for a new etiquette

Trigger warnings: the performance of awareness

Why academic freedom must not be rationed: an argument against the freedom - security trade-off.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781138212930

1138212938

OCLC:

962037609