Article image Posted on 04/26/2022 12:40:54 PM PDT by Red Badger
"Observing Whiteness in Introductory Physics: A Case Study" was published last month in Physical Review Physics Education Research.
"Whiteboards can be racist like how housing, employment, and the judicial systems were found to contain racist practices," the co-author told Campus Reform.
Stevie Gibbs '23 | Arkansas Campus Correspondent Monday, April 25, 2022 1:44 PM
Did a recent physics study argue that whiteboards are racist?
"Observing Whiteness in Introductory Physics: A Case Study" was published last month in Physical Review Physics Education Research. The study observed three students as they worked to solve a physics problem and analyzed how "whiteness" is present in academia.
The study found that whiteboards can have racist undertones and perpetuate whiteness.
Seattle Pacific University Research Associate Professor of Physics Amy Roberton served as lead author. W. Tali Hairston, director of community organizing, advocacy, and development at Seattle Presbytery, served as the co-author.
Hairston told Campus Reform that although whiteboards "are not inherently racist," the common classroom object can perpetuate racism.
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"Whiteboards can be racist like how housing, employment, and the judicial systems were found to contain racist practices," Hairston stated.
According to the authors, the role of the whiteboard as being the center of attention in classroom learning contributes to its role in student discussion and attention.
"Our findings support other studies that have found the study of physics to include racism and sexism," Hairston added.
"Whiteboards display written information for public consumption; they draw attention to themselves and in this case support the centering of an abstract representation and the person standing next to it, presenting," the authors argue in the study. "They collaborate with white organizational culture, where ideas and experiences gain value (become more central) when written down.”
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According to this argument, when students use a whiteboard to display work, they are drawing attention to themselves that may portray characteristics of "whiteness."
University of Arkansas student Whitney Hines, who is currently enrolled in physics courses, told Campus Reform that "science is not meant to be subjective."
"I do not see how an objective topic can be seen as racist," Hines added.
Campus Reform contacted Seattle Pacific University and Roberton for comment. This article will be updated accordingly.
Why former?.................
Well chalk one up on the blackboard for Seattle Pacific University.
So chalk and blackboard must be beyond the Pale?
Ludicrous.
Important point about this, though.
“Did a recent physics study argue that whiteboards are racist?”
It was most certainly not a physics study.
It was an “education” study published in “Physics Education Research” not a physics journal. A so-called education journal, i.e. a purveyor of Marxist claptrap.
With a name like "Hairston," how do we know for certain she isn't appropriating her name from black POCs like that poor young woman in Boston?
“House Blackboards”
People keep feeding reams of white paper to copy machines and computer printers. This must stop immediately.
Physical Review Physics Education Research
Real physicists probably avoid this clown show like the plague. I sure as hell know that woke math won’t even come close to solving an S-matrix. To the woke “math eddikashun” crowd, a matrix is one of them thar tic-tac-to things.
Is using a black pen writing on white paper “racist”???
How about a white pen writing on black paper???
Mine were green as well.
If there are still active ones, then send them there.
I assumed eradication.
-PJ
Good one!
Next, they’ll come after our racist white bed sheets. Black sheets mandatory.
Reminds me of the KKK wrapped in white sheets. New BLM uniform will be black sheets.
Blackboards racist because white chalk!
True. We got rid of the blackboard for the white
I need some eye bleach!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Armadillos carry leprosy................
Is using a black pen writing on white paper “racist”???
How about a white pen writing on black paper???
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Maybe we should use black pens on black paper and white pens on white paper....
That would definitely show the intelligence of the writer...
They are on to us.
Better talk in igpay atinlay from here on out.
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