Overview
- Examines the impact of September 11, 2001 upon the liberal arts and pedagogy in higher education
- Analyses the extent to which the impact of 9.11 was direct or part of wider structural changes within academia
- Demonstrates the emergence of new forms of inquiry, exploration and evidence in light of the terror attacks
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This book explores the impact of September 11, 2001 upon interdisciplinary scholarship and pedagogy in the liberal arts. Since “the day that changed everything”, many forces have transformed institutions of higher education in the United States and around the world. The editors and contributors consider the extent to which the influence of 9/11 was direct, or part of wider structural changes within academia, and the chapters represent a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives on how the production and dissemination of knowledge has changed since 2001. Some authors demonstrate that new forms of inquiry, exploration, and evidence have been created, much of it focused on the causes, consequences, and meanings of the terror attacks. Others find that scholars sought to understand 9/11 by applying old theoretical and empirical insights and reviving lines of questioning that have become relevant. The contributors also examine the impact of 9/11 on higher education administration and liberal arts pedagogies. Among the many collective findings is that scholars in the humanities and critical social sciences have been most attentive to the place of 9/11 in society and academic culture. This eclectic collection will appeal to students and scholars interested in the place of the liberal arts in the twenty-first century world.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mark Finney is Associate Professor of Mass Communications at Emory & Henry College, USA.
Matthew Shannon is Associate Professor of History at Emory & Henry College, USA.
Matthew Shannon is Associate Professor of History at Emory & Henry College, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: 9/11 and the Academy
Book Subtitle: Responses in the Liberal Arts and the 21st Century World
Editors: Mark Finney, Matthew Shannon
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16419-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16418-8Published: 09 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16421-8Published: 09 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-16419-5Published: 31 July 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 355
Topics: Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, US Politics, Cultural Studies, Terrorism, Terrorism and Political Violence