Open AccessA Report Card for Diversity
Author(s) -
Butler Johnnella E.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
to improve the academy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-4822
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-4822.1994.tb00263.x
Subject(s) - plural , diversity (politics) , curriculum , individualism , generative grammar , sociology , order (exchange) , liberal arts education , pedagogy , mathematics education , political science , computer science , linguistics , higher education , psychology , law , artificial intelligence , philosophy , finance , economics
This article was originally prepared for and presented as the keynote address for the 1993 POD conference. As an assessment of where we are and need to go intellectually in efforts to incorporate diversity into the liberal arts curriculum, it argues for the recognition of the multiple, connected stories in our national story, in order to allow for a transformation in our teaching, our curricula, and in the structure of colleges and universities that moves us to an individualism defined and supported by collective, shared memory, thereby promoting the generative learning necessary to the evolution of a just, plural society.