The professoriate and the post-truth era: A historiographic analysis of expert judgment and the destabilization of objective truth

This paper explores the role that distrust of expert judgment plays in conservative critiques of higher education. We propose that academics should abandon the insistence on truth as the standard for the evaluation of research quality. Doing so would separate conservative critiques of higher educati...

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Main Authors: Rachel E. Friedensen, Ezekiel Kimball
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Arizona State University 2018-11-01
Series:Education Policy Analysis Archives
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Online Access:https://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/3357