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Probably the stupidest thing I have read about this week (thus far)
Now Geology is Racist.
“My teaching builds on my ongoing pedagogical commitment of decolonizing geography, through a focus on the examination of unequal environments,” she admits before disgorging the following neo-Marxist blather about her teaching approach: “Modules engage how pedagogic encounter is racial, social-economic and gendered in relation to normative understandings of ability and disability.” Students, enroll at your own risk.
There is nothing these people cannot and will not ruin.
ReplyDeleteIf it's already ruined they'll find a way to make it worse.
Yes, I'm confused, too. Is it geology, or geography?
ReplyDeleteAnd my ideal would be a professor who writes: "I teach geography to those who want to learn geography."
I actually enjoyed geometry in high school, myself.
DeleteGood question, however. I gritted my teeth and clicked the link, and the professor profiled does use both terms, so I am not sure if she actually can make a distinction. She actually says white supremacy has created geotrauma. Because of course it has. Here's an actual quote:
“To tell a story of rocks is to account for a eugenic materialism in which white supremacy made surfaces built on racialised undergrounds,”
I think the average AI program could generate more coherent sentences than that "professor" has written herself.
ReplyDeleteMy wife took a Masters of Education program and a lot of it was thick with that kind of language; she successfully slogged through without validating their bias and took some tools from the experience which she includes in her teaching; the valuable is her "equity cards," a deck of 3x5 cards with the students names on them, a good random selection device to avoid "picking on" and student or category of students (apparently girls are called on more frequently and boys are called out more frequently)
ReplyDeleteShe sure used a lot of big words to proclaim her idiocy.
ReplyDeleteKnowledge does not equal intelligence just as ignorance does not equal stupidity.