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."

Sunday, 18 April 2010

contacting gloria allred!!!!

http://www.gloriaallred.com/

"LACC community college harbors verbal harassment of women.
words such as tits and ass slut and whore are used by professors.  many students will come forward.
i launched a blog http://thereallacc.blogspot.com/
and have pursued
administrative channels which have pushed it under the rug.
please help call 503 901 7798
maryeng1@yahoo.com
i am in paralegal studies multiple professors abusing.
also some anti-mexican, anti-women of color, islamophobic.

teacher sending me creepy email.
they claim they are just trying to be funny.
please help friend referrred me to you.
thank you for your hard work.
i am appalled tax dollars subsidise this level of abuse.
bc i spoke out against the tits and ass professor i expect the abuse to either exacerbate or possible retaliation.   the email explaining the word teat is gross.  i have had anxiety about this.
teacher demands paper on topless dancing.
female higher admin say, it was so much worse in teh sixties.
i want a better world for women and true equality.
also homophobic stuff about gay identity.
talk of hookers and the n-word."
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