Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: This History of Education Quarterly forum was inspired by recent assaults on academic freedom across the globe.Whether through watch lists, firings, detentions and jail sentences, or visa denials to travel to professional conferences, professors and teachers are battling for the freedom to regulate their professional lives against government (and even administrative) officials who invoke national security and patriotism to justify suppression and enforce a particular consensus on contentious issues.We asked several scholars to reflect on the implications of their research and scholarship with regard to ongoing issues of academic freedom today.Specifically, we asked them to consider how intellectual censorship and suppression were first and most strongly perpetrated and expressed in the historical cases and contexts they have examined; how intellectuals, students, faculty, and teachers first responded to those pressures; and what responses were most and least effective.The authors of the eight essays that follow examine these questions across various time periods and different contexts.All recognize the tenuous nature of academic freedom protections and call for a renewed commitment to safeguarding freedom of inquiry.This introductory comment discusses the essays as a whole and highlights important patterns, threats, and possibilities.
Source: History of Education Quarterly
DOI: 10.1017/heq.2018.17
Author: Joy Ann Williamson-Lott
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2884256129