Areas which are especially subject to academic politics which eventually skews the content of coursework. Generally these are areas which have overriding significance (in the eyes of academics) which require (in their eyes) that students be indoctrinated in a certain perspective. To give an egegious example, a Chinese history student on the mainland. But it goes beyond that sort of situation to include anyone who absorbs knowledge the content of which is subject to political process.
The area I remember from my college experience was the behaviorist orientation of psychology.
Fred
From: Timwi timwi@gmx.net Reply-To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 02:29:18 +0000 To: wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Re: why an average person would wish to ruin a good article?
Fred Bauder wrote:
You're changing the subject. Which is that an excellent article written by a knowledgable person which CONFORMS TO THE ACCEPTED CANON OF KNOWLEDGE can be trashed back to the level of what the average users remember from their undergraduate courses.
Can you provide a hypothetical example? What sort of pieces of knowledge would an average college student tend to trash?
Timwi
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