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

[ewjohnson via Peace-discuss]

The whole university thing has gradually become a centre for censorship 
and enforced uniformity
to consensus and status quo.  This censorship extends to the 
"scientific" journals
as well as to the campus and classroom.


On 08/24/2014 11:55 PM, Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> ===
>
> Robert Naiman
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> Just Foreign Policy
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