Heritage politics defines civilization through selective Western tradition

Evidence

This emphasis on heritage concerns the valorization of an elitist view of self and social development, the call to define civilization as synonymous with selected aspects of Western tradition, matched by a fervent attempt to reduce pedagogy to the old transmission model of teaching and learning. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 130

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 130