[Peace-discuss] Corey Robin on the claim that Twitter activity => teaching behavior

[Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss]

http://coreyrobin.com/2014/08/24/a-modest-proposal/

A Modest Proposal

24 AUG

I had always thought that it was a sacred canon of our profession that the
classroom requires certain and very specific rules of engagement from us as
teachers. I would never, for example, respond to libertarians in my
classroom the way I respond to some libertarians on Twitter. That some
people are so quick to believe that how someone acts on Twitter—or Facebook
or the comments section of a blog—inevitably bleeds into how she acts in
the classroom suggests that the problem lies less with Salaita and his
defenders than with his critics, who seem to have a rather more precarious
and shrunken sense of what it is that we do when we teach. Assuming of
course that these critics are being sincere when they raise concerns about
Salaita’s teaching. But since Salaita’s critics are so convinced that how
someone acts outside the classroom is a good measure of how they will act
inside the classroom, I suggest we investigate how every professor with
college-age children treats her children at home in order to assess how she
will treat her students in class.

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Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
(202) 448-2898 x1
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