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Teaching: The Issues Perestroika Neglected

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 October 2010

Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott
Affiliation:
Eastern Michigan University
Rogers M. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania

Extract

A decade ago, we were among the scholars in political science who proudly associated ourselves with the Perestroika movement and its calls for greater respect for a range of productive methods, more substantively significant political research, and a more internally democratic profession. We retain those commitments. But Perestroikans have failed to focus on some broader trends in political science and the modern American academy that pose threats that are arguably still deeper, still more unjust, and still harder to overcome. In regard to what political scientists do that this society values most—teaching—we have a significant and growing equity deficit in the discipline.

Type
Symposium
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 2010

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