do no harm:


idit dobb-weinstein: "teaching is action and thinking at once. What I try to guard against most when I teach is not speaking as if my answer were conclusive, so as to avoid (to the extent possible) any kind of dogmatic appropriation. It is understandable why students might wish to imitate their teachers, but there are different modes of imitation. I try very hard to avoid the mimetic appropriation that is immediate, passive, and occludes thinking. One other reason is that if I made clear what my views were, and my views appeared as if they were final, it would preclude the possibility of first, students challenging me and second, learning from my students. The relation between the student and teacher is, to me, a dynamic relationship . . . Teaching and learning is a movement that occurs between. In other words, we are at once both agent and patient, both teacher and learner. If we are not very careful, we can do a great deal of harm. And that, too, I have learned from my teachers, Maimonides especially.

I believe my task is to provoke students to think and to engage them in genuine dialogue and questioning. To paraphrase a rabbinic saying, 'I have learned from my teachers, and I have learned from my peers, but I have learned most from my students.' And that is a continuous process of learning."

Tuesday, 20 September 2011

spamming for equality

From: mary eng
To: jamillah moore ; LACCD counsel legal ; LACC collegian ; israel fonseci ; "laccasoes@lacitycollege.edu" ;  ombudsman ; keith fink ; "eckforwv@lacitycollege.edu" ; tom duffy ; "lanzerkc@lacitycollege.edu" ; lewis r ; LACC collegian arts ; Letia R. Royal burnet ; lawrence bradford ;  fadwa el guindi ; lacc anthropology project ; LACC anthro South Africa ; PSU general counsel ; boghossian PSU ; psu counsel david c reese
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 1:04 PM
Subject: sexism at LACC
DEAR JAMILLAH MOORE, president of Los Angeles City College

everything is messed up about your letter to me

i made numerous complaints about numerous sexist LACC professors
including Lanzer's use of the word SLUT or LACC campus RAPE theory that it was the victim's fault
and Lewis's obsession with "prostitutes" and sex scandals

but the most critical issue involved the grade retaliation 

for complaining about

BRIAN BARTELT's screaming "TITS AND ASS"

along with numerous other trashy vulgar comments about "bitching" "shitty" "assholes"
he was discriminatory on a lot of levels.

to women, to vegetarians, and to latinos

he promoted animal torture including the unaesthenetized disembowlment of animals or burning of live chickens.

when he was seething mad the last day of class because of my complaints regarding his sexism and anger problems he was really mean to a young latin boy who profiled the anthropology of Punk culture in Koreatown becuase the student explained the alcoholic issues in the punk scene.

in stark contrast he was supportive of the marijuana project.

so in your letter to me
you confuse this grade retaliation with Tom Duffy in the paralegal department.

Tom Duffy made cracks about women GETTING FAT EATING BON-BONS in the context of a marriage to a rich man.
i considered this sexist also---but it was not as severe as being shouted at and cursed at by BARTELT>

so please check your documentation or read my blog to clear up your confusion.
http://thereallacc.blogspot.com/

how can you issue a judgement when you will not avail yourself of the FACTS.

when we speak 26 monday at 3:30 hopefully we can clear this up.

rhonda put me in for an appointment on that day.

i want to know what you are doing to get the facts straight and to protect the students of LACC from a hostile learning atmosphere.

eckford threatened to kick me out of anthropology for blogging and told keith fink to "jump in a stream" and that he would "hang up on your dumb ass" after forcing me into a mandatory meeting alone with him and bartelt in which eckford said the words "vagina" "breast"

i found this extremely uncomfortable and harassing and vulgar and unprofessional.

there is a recording on my blog of this sexual verbal abuse on the blog

please realize wikileaks inspired sites like UNILEAKS will begin to uncover the corruption inside the federal school systems as well
and more students will find the power to expose the abusiveness of school administration as you continue to reward and protect ABUSERS

if anyone is interested in sexism at my current school PSU
please see
http://therealpsu.blogspot.com/

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