Suissa, J;
Sullivan, A;
(2021)
The Gender Wars, Academic Freedom and Education.
Journal of Philosophy of Education
, 55
(1)
pp. 55-82.
10.1111/1467-9752.12549.
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Abstract
Philosophical arguments regarding academic freedom can sometimes appear removed from the real conflicts playing out in contemporary universities. This paper focusses on a set of issues at the front line of these conflicts, namely, questions regarding sex, gender and gender identity. We document the ways in which the work of academics has been affected by political activism around these questions and, drawing on our respective disciplinary expertise as a sociologist and a philosopher, elucidate the costs of curtailing discussion on fundamental demographic and conceptual categories. We discuss some philosophical work that addresses the conceptual distinction between academic freedom and free speech and explore how these notions are intertwined in significant ways in universities. Our discussion elucidates and emphasises the educational costs of curtailing academic freedom.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Gender Wars, Academic Freedom and Education |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1467-9752.12549 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12549 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2021 The Authors. Journal of Philosophy of Education published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. |
| Keywords: | Social Sciences, Education & Educational Research, History Of Social Sciences, Social Sciences - Other Topics |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10125585 |
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