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Kovacevich's opinion is frighteningly misguided in its approach to scholarship. As academics we are engaged in a quest for understanding the world, reality and truth. To be sure, Kovacevich is not so naive as to think that his reality, his daily experiences, are the same as those of a black man or a Latina. But it is frighteningly naive for a government concentrator to assume that daily experiences have nothing to do with important academic investigations...
Kovacevich's opinion is frighteningly misguided in its approach to scholarship. As academics we are engaged in a quest for understanding the world, reality and truth. To be sure, Kovacevich is not so nave as to think that his reality, his daily experiences, are the same as those of a black man or a Latina. But it is frighteningly nave for a government concentrator to assume that daily experiences have nothing to do with important academic investigations...
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...movement of the 1950s aimed to make the personal political and the student movements of the 1960s sought to transform university education in the image of a diverse student body. We were left with a strong legacy of personality in the academy, sometimes clouding the classical format of scholarship. So much energy was spent making education more responsive to specific student identities that undergraduates could not refrain from infusing the personal into the academic. We all became more aware of our own cultures and histories as a result of the 1950s and 1960s, but perhaps the price was the clouding...
...seems odd, though, that our instructors would tolerate X, Y statements in discussion settings given the obvious gulf between such statements and the rigorous scholarship demanded of professors and graduate students. Perhaps our instructors reason that the only way to keep undergraduates engaged in dry or challenging material is to entertain our anecdotes and X, Y statements...