A Justice Site
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CSUDH - Habermas - UWP
California State University, Dominguez Hills
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Soka University Japan, Transcend Art and Peace
Created: November 13, 2001
Latest Update: November 24, 2001
jeannecurran@habermas.org
Copyright: Jeanne Curran, November 2001.
"Fair use" encouraged.
So I found myself all alone in a big department. Not socially acceptable. Not academically acceptable. Well, at least they didn't tell me I wasn't acceptable as a person. That came later.
I would have been despondent, but there really wasn't time. I would have loved to be whatever they wanted of me. I knew it must be wonderful to be included. To not be "unacceptably different." But I didn't have time to figure out how. We had real stuff to do. Like run the center and figure out how to get a fair shot at the jobs, and how to get our kids through school and around the barriers we had known.
Notes to finish:
Students could discuss, but couldn't lead argument. Bourdieu - academic discourse - how could I have it when I wasn't having it myself?
Helped that I had never had such entree so I didn't know the rules. I set about to create my fantasy of what "they" must have had.
Learning has to start with what you want to talk about - Lenard, Rousseau and Emile.
But learning also means discipline. C's simply say you haven't succeeded. The self-esteem stuff says we need support. So we began to write in this direction.
The kid who asked you mean you want me to know not just T F, but why?
Word Count:
xxxx words. Former word count: xxxx. Total word count: xxxx xxxx + xxxx= xxxx