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."

Thursday 4 August 2011

bartelt's tits and ass class

letter to former DOJ lawyer and now EQUALITY ombudsman cristy passman
passmacw@lacitycollege.edu

and LACC President jamillah moore
moorejk@lacitycollege.edu


i want to thank you for investigating bartelt's tits and ass and shitty and bulimic and anorexic and christian and vegan slurs and whiteman identity issues.

while i am sorry you consider this acceptable under the civil rights act, nonetheless as a woman i am sure this has been both embarrassing and unpleasant, as was taking his class.

i do hope you have more respectful encounters.

once again if you would like to hear eckford and bartelt coercing me out of my free speech to review bartelt's cursing problem on the blogosphere you can listen here:


many students wrote me with similar sadness.

i am very sorry it seems you do not care for the psychological well being of students who are unaccustomed to verbal abuse.

in an age of school shootings, all attempts to diffuse professor anger should be a part of safety protocol if not basic human dignity or civil rights.

i am so sorry you do not have more respect for me as a human.

to condone this behavior reflects poorly upon your post and is an insult to the women of LACC who are statistically sure to be victims of domestic violence, rape, and verbal abuse elsewhere.

i would love to point you to progressive measures for women's safety in international milieus.

the chronic underpay and underrepresentation of women in the USA is a part of the cultural milieu which would condone the verbal abuse of the women at LACC.

did you approve the hate speech against Japanese people at UCLA?

at which point your approval for hateful verbal conduct provokes an atmosphere of violence you might experience remorse.

i hope bartelt has experienced personal growth.

but sadly i have heard that his hatefulness to women continues at LACC.

i wish you cared.

i hope your own children have attained a higher degree of etiquette and future hiring decisions will reflect a desire to reduce the nuisance of such paper work and bureaucracy as your ineffective year long investigation has yielded.

did you come to a decision about Lanzer's jokes about the LACC rape victim? 

i hope it has been a learning experience for everyone.

i am very sorry i rubbed your nose in this, as it would have been easier for all of us if i had just brushed it under the rug with all the other sexist stuff from other white male professors at LACC.

thanks for everything.

if you get a chance
check out the jamie leigh foundation.
she was gang raped and gagged by Halliburton and KBR federal contractors.
US senators voted to keep war contractor rape victims gagged.
yes,
the same federal government that pays your salary.

in peace
eng, mary
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