More than the Sum of Its Diverse Parts: Liberalist Visions of Substantive Education

• In Event: Rhetorical Models of Democracy

Abstract

David Sacks and Peter Thiel's The Diversity Myth: “Multiculturalism” and the Politics of Intolerance at Stanford is an example of how critics discredit multiculturalism as contrived programming lacking in genuine educational value that offers little more than technical variation on norms of the liberal subject. In counterargument, this paper reviews recent recuperations of technē that offer reason to elevate the status of technical knowledge and change its role in education for civic practice.

Author

• Kathleen McConnell, Indiana University