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You are warmly invited to attend 鈥淪hifting Networks, Changing Identities: The Hidden Social Costs of College Education,鈥� with guest speaker Professor Anthony S. Laden, Centre for Ethics and Education, University of Illinois.听听

This lecture is presented by the Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy, in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance and Professor Kevin McDonough, 涩里番 Faculty of Education.听听

The event is open to all 鈥� no registration required.听听

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鈥�Drawing on material from my recent book, Networks of Trust, I argue that colleges and听
universities impose hidden social costs on some of their students through the very听
process of educating them. I focus on the role education plays in shaping the set of听
sources of information that students trust (their 鈥渋nformational trust networks鈥�) and the听
grounds they have for deciding what kinds of sources to trust (their 鈥渋nformational听
ideology鈥�). While one effect of this process is to improve students鈥� capacities for听
knowledge, it nevertheless pulls some students away from the communities in which听
they grew up, communities who occupy and are held together by different trust听
networks. Political criticisms of higher education from both the left and the right can be听
understood, then, as giving expression to the anxieties this process provokes.鈥�听

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