Posted on 06/12/2022 3:22:30 PM PDT by Mount Athos
Deconstructing whiteness in an introductory physics classroom may seem like a nonsensical goal, but according to a pair of critical whiteness scholars from Seattle Pacific University, this endeavor is actually an important step toward the larger undertaking of freeing students and professors alike from the weighty fetters of whiteness.
Funded through a $495,847 National Science Foundation grant, researchers Amy Robertson and W. Tali Hairston aim “to develop a knowledge base that could lead to awareness of how power relations may be embedded in the way physics is taught and learned.”
The two record introductory physics classes and interview participants, then analyze them using a critical whiteness theory lens “to show how privilege operates in undergraduate physics teaching and learning.”
Hairston and two of his colleagues recorded nearly two weeks of footage from introductory physics classes at three universities, then analyzed a single, seemingly uneventful episode in which a group of students completed a hands-on, in-class assignment dealing with mass and acceleration.
The scholars carefully evaluated the footage for instances of marginalization through displays of “certain characteristics that U.S. culture typically associates with white masculine behavior, including control, independence, and decisiveness.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...
Schroedinger’s cat is gay and black?
The long far end of the “Bell Curve” is telling those of us on the left and apex what intelligence we possess. SMH...
The ongoing communist purge has no limits or boundaries...
Jesus really needs to come back soon.
Ghetto and math don’t mix.
Wow, who could possibly see independence and decisiveness as positive traits!
That is blatantly racist and it is a crime for government to spend tax dollars promoting such bigotry.
“...to develop a knowledge base that could lead to awareness of how power relations may be embedded in the way physics is taught and learned...”
Ample proof that these researchers are strangers to the right side of the Bell Curve.
The problematic premise is that White = Bad and that, therefor, everything White must be destroyed.
Amen
The grift has no bounds
You cannot fool Mother Nature.
I have a PhD in physics. The way I learned physics is by getting textbooks, reading the explanations and then diligently solving the problems, hours a day, every day of the week for months and years. It's how all of the really good physicists I know learned physics. It's not a rote-memory subject, like say leftist political philosophy or the history of minority oppression.
BTW that is how Lincoln learned law.
Man, these mental cases really hate white folk.
“Critical Whiteness Scholar” = position that will not exist after the collapse
Can they cook? Change a flat tire? Oh, h3ll no!
Yes. Maranatha!
New Physics - This is the ball, and this is the hoop…
Funded through a $495,847 National Science Foundation grant. Money down a rat hole. The Bell Curve doesn’t lie. You can be in the top five percent, have an IQ of 130-140, and still not compete even with mediocre physics minds.
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