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Should Schools Teach Children to Be Culture Warriors?
by Charlotte Hays
October 30, 2007, 2:12pm
Okay, okay, a lot of school children aren't gaining basic skills. But many are learning to be culture warriors. What's not to like? The National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME), meeting in Baltimore, helps ensure this. Here are some of NAME'S workshops:
• "The Unbearable Whiteness of Being: Dismantling White Privilege and Supporting Anti-Racist Education in Our Classrooms and Schools." Taught by a professor from St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, this session "is designed to help educators identify and deconstruct their own white privilege and in so doing more deeply commit themselves to anti-racist teaching and critical multicultural teaching."
• "Talking About Religious Oppression and Unpacking Christian Privilege." This session, taught by a team of professors, "will examine the dynamics of Christian privilege and oppression of minority religious groups and nonbelievers as constructed and maintained on three distinct levels: individual, institutional and societal. A historical and legal lecturette will be presented and participants will engage in interactive learning modules."
• "Beyond Celebrating Diversity: Teaching Teachers How to be Critical Multicultural Educators." Taught by NAME regional director Paul Gorski, founder of the activist group EdChange, this session will start from the premise that multiculturalism's greatest danger "comes from educators who ostensibly support its goals, but whose work - cultural plunges, food fairs, etc. - reflects a compassionate conservative consciousness rather than social justice. This session focuses on preparing teachers, not for celebrating diversity, but for achieving justice in schools and society."
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Pavel Goberman | November 4, 2007, 11:17pm | #
What culture? After high school can't read? But ... so many have a very bad "culture", for what taxpayers are paying for: have sex, diseases, abortion and children.
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