The academically destructive nature of trigger warnings

Q2 Social Sciences

First Amendment Studies Pub Date : 2016-07-02 DOI:10.1080/21689725.2016.1230508

R. E. Vatz

引用次数: 10

Abstract

Abstract Trigger warnings are the latest concession to the notion espoused by some students and progressive professors that learning, particularly in higher education, should be pain-free psychologically. Such a premise is antithetical to the values of academic freedom and the marketplace of ideas and is inconsistent with students’ learning and confronting ideas with which they are unfamiliar and which are outside of their comfort zone. Yielding to demands for trigger warnings when exposing students to ideas, topics and exchanges that may become uncomfortable negates growth for students. In short, acquiescing to the self-serving demands for trigger warnings makes education nothing but the reaffirming of ideas and positions with which students enter the academy. This article may upset undergraduates and progressive faculty and administrators…deal with it.

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触发警告在学术上的破坏性

触发警告是对一些学生和进步教授所支持的观念的最新让步，他们认为学习，特别是在高等教育中，应该是心理上没有痛苦的。这样的前提与学术自由和思想市场的价值观是对立的，与学生的学习和面对他们不熟悉的和他们舒适区之外的思想是不一致的。在让学生接触可能会让他们不舒服的想法、话题和交流时，屈服于对触发警告的要求，会对学生的成长产生负面影响。简而言之，默许对触发警告的自私要求，使教育只不过是对学生进入学院时所带的思想和立场的重申。这篇文章可能会让本科生、进步的教师和管理人员感到不安……处理它吧。

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First Amendment Studies Social Sciences-Law

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期刊介绍： First Amendment Studies publishes original scholarship on all aspects of free speech and embraces the full range of critical, historical, empirical, and descriptive methodologies. First Amendment Studies welcomes scholarship addressing areas including but not limited to: • doctrinal analysis of international and national free speech law and legislation • rhetorical analysis of cases and judicial rhetoric • theoretical and cultural issues related to free speech • the role of free speech in a wide variety of contexts (e.g., organizations, popular culture, traditional and new media).