Teaching Jewish History to the 'Other'
| Autor: | Daniel Goffman |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
| Předmět: |
Cultural Studies
History Liberal arts education Higher education business.industry Multicultural education Jewish studies Religious studies Ethnic group World history Gender studies Special Interest Group Political science Political history Social history Ethnology Ethnic history business Religious discrimination |
| Zdroj: | Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. 10:110-127 |
| ISSN: | 1534-5165 |
| DOI: | 10.1353/sho.1991.0010 |
| Popis: | THE AMERICAN SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION has developed a plethora of programs in area and topical studies in the past few decades. Among the most popular such centers, sometimes even departments, are Women's (or Gender) Studies, African-American (or BlackAmerican) Studies, Native American (or American Indian) Studies, Hispanic Studies, and Jewish Studies. Predictably enough, colleges and universities with significant student populations in one or another of these categories tend to offer programs accordingly. Women's Studies programs have proliferated at liberal arts and women's colleges, while remaining almost non-existent at engineering and men's colleges; and African-American Studies programs thrive where there is a large clientele of African-American students, while languishing at institutions with relatively few such students. This situation, perhaps inevitable given interests and expectations, is also unfortunate, even dangerous, in its tendency to isolate special interest and minority groups and increase ethnic and racial fears at the very point where we have the best opportunity to break down stereotypes and tensions. It is important that we offer students courses in their own heritages; but, in our richly pluralistic society, it is even more crucial that we expand knowledge of other peoples, other communities, the other gender, with whom we must live and work. |
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