Liberal professors are afraid! And they should be, those commie loving tree huggers.
Posted on 09/12/2007 9:12:46 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
"Reclaim Your Rights as a Liberal Educator." That's the title of a short essay in this month's Academe, organ of the American Association of University Professors. The phrase has all the imagination of a slogan unfurled at countless marches, but what it lacks in wit it makes up for in fortitude of the uniquely academic kind. Author Julie Kilmer, women's studies and religion professor at Olivet College, sounds the standard "they're-out-to-get-us" call and rallies her brethren to take back the classroom. We have, too, a vicious aggressor: conservative student groups that confront professors of perceived liberal bias, and they form a national network out to undermine the faculty, who come off as vulnerable and innocent professionals. While the professors uphold "freedom of inquiry to examine the worth of controversial ideas" and "teach college students to use analytical thinking in the development of new ideas," groups such as Students for Academic Freedom do their best to subvert the process. Worst of all, they "encourage students to bring complaints against faculty to administrators." To Kilmer, they are no better than spies, and they prompt her to wonder, "Each time a student is resistant to feminist theories and ideas, should I ask if he or she has been placed in my class to question my teaching? How is my teaching affected if I enter the classroom each day asking, 'Is today the day I will be called to the president's office?"
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Liberal professors are afraid! And they should be, those commie loving tree huggers.
“Each time a student is resistant to feminist theories and ideas, should I ask if he or she has been placed in my class to question my teaching? How is my teaching affected if I enter the classroom each day asking, ‘Is today the day I will be called to the president’s office?”
Isn’t it part of the student’s educational process to question ideas such as feminist theories? If feminism doesn’t make sense to a student, shouldn’t there be a free exchange of the ideas and concepts involved? Doesn’t this process help the student with his/her critical thinking and reasoning abilities? And isn’t thinking and reasoning ability a big part of education in the first place?
How is a student's learning affected if he enters the classroom each day asking, "Is today the day I will be flunked because my ideas differ from the professor's?"
And isn’t is possible that many students are more conservative than the teachers? In which case, they will find disagreement with the teacher because of that. It does not mean the teacher needs to be paranoid that such a student is out to spy on them.
That way of thinking went out in the early sixties. Today if you question a professor like that you are considered stupid and must be sent back for reprogramming.
Lynne Webb, communications professor at the University of Arkansas, in the Academic Review Quarterly reports six central principles of feminist pedagogy: reformation of the relationship between professor and student, empowerment, building community, privileging the individual voice, respecting personal experience in its diversity, and challenging traditional views of theory and instruction. Each principle contributes to the creation of a collaborative learning experience.
How odd that dissent should be a threat to the individual voice and the diversity of personal experience. When will feminists realize that they have become the Establishment, the institution, tradition? Probably never, when they want to complain, and always, when they want to gloat.
http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2007/JA/Feat/kilm.htm
Mrs VS
Also shouldn’t students be able to expect a classroom free of bias in core classes? The one’s they’re forced to be in...
Schools today are all about Critical Thinking — which means students had better not dare criticize the teacher’s way of thinking.
No. You should stop wondering about the motivation of the students' objections, and instead answer them. You should treat the objections respectfully, and rebut them if you can. If you can't, you should acknowledge this.
I say this as someone who has been a college professor for almost fifteen years, and has been successfully challenged in the classroom numerous times by students.
Once upon a time, we called this "learning."
Ah, the worm turns. They are being given a dose of their own medicine and they don’t like it.
Not untill ALL traditional western (and real ‘male’) values are fully suppressed: I once heard an insane remark by a feminist that showed me how radical they have become. Once a feminist I read about said to push off opression..”she should pump her fist at the atmophere in defiance and claim you can’t oppress me with your air”!
Not untill ALL traditional western (and real ‘male’) values are fully suppressed.
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Not everywhere. But at most colleges, which are the real world to too many academics, traditional western values dare not speak their name.
Mrs VS
“When will feminists realize that they have become the Establishment, the institution, tradition? ...”
Yep.
Although the war cry from these fat-hairy beasts has long been: question authority and subvert the dominant paradigm, we count on them to start head bashing the moment their own (the new)authority or paradigm is challenged.
They not only don't like it, they hate and despise it.
Neoliberalism truly is a mental disorder.
I had a required class (public speaking) that was taught by an ardent feminist. She and one other prof were the only two that taught it - it was *very* hard to get into the other prof's class. :-)
Anyhoo, on the first day of class, she said that she didn't like engineers, didn't like male engineers in particular, and that all of the engineers in the classroom should not expect a good grade. I got my 'C', and got out. But, I wonder how she fits within this paradigm?
FYI; Student formal complaints to college boards often fall on deaf ears, but students can fight back in other ways as well... see links.
www.noindoctrination.org/
www.ratemyprofessor.com
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www. brainterminal.com
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