Posted on 08/23/2008 2:31:55 PM PDT by chrispycsuf
I just recieved my required reading list for some of my teaching courses, and i have since picked up all of my books. Upon opening the first book, i was shocked to see the name William Ayers. Apparently he is the series editor for a series called teaching for social justice. I dont object to him editing a book, however, i have some reservations about paying for a book, where the money is going to a known terrorist. Though he didnt author the book, he did act as editor and he is acknowledged as an inspiration for the author as well. It feels strange to see this from a government-funded public college, but then i just remember that it is CALIFORNIA. I dont think advice from a terrorist is going to help me become an effective teacher.
Hello? What, did you think that sociology (or whatever other department you’re in) at almost any public college in the USA isn’t leftist? It isn’t just California.
I think you should mention the title and provide a link.
That shoulda been your first clue!
What course is this for?
Consider posting informatio on the school and course. It is usually a bad idea in my opinion to question anything put forward as required of students at a univeristy-but others can do so safely.
If it is a notorious liberal ran school, our condolences. I would suggest another, better, school.
Social Justice is a euphemism for communism.
Since that is their belief system, the book should be free. Steal it without a guilty conscience.
That would make for an interesting first day’s discussion, but then you’re likely to recieve a failing grade for the class.
http://billayers.wordpress.com/2006/11/
Ayers speech before Hugo Chavez, 2006
World Education Forum! Amamos la revolucion Bolivariana!
This is my fourth visit to Venezuela, each time at the invitation of my comrade and friend Luis Bonilla, a brilliant educator and inspiring fighter for justice. Luis has taught me a great deal about the Bolivarian Revolution and about the profound educational reforms underway here in Venezuela under the leadership of President Chavez. We share the belief that education is the motor-force of revolution, and I’ve come to appreciate Luis as a major asset in both the Venezuelan and the international struggle—I look forward to seeing how he and all of you continue to overcome the failings of capitalist education as you seek to create something truly new and deeply humane. Thank you, Luis, for everything you’ve done.
I also thank my youngest son, Chesa Boudin, who is interpreting my talk this morning and whose book on the Bolivarian revolution has played an important part in countering the barrage of lies spread by the U.S. State Department and the corrupted Northamerican media.
I began teaching when I was 20 years old in a small freedom school affiliated with the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. The year was 1965, and I’d been arrested in a demonstration. Jailed for ten days, I met several activists who were finding ways to link teaching and education with deep and fundamental social change.
I walked out of jail and into my first teaching position—and from that day until this I’ve thought of myself as a teacher, but I’ve also understood teaching as a project intimately connected with social justice.
I taught at first in something like a Simoncito—called Head Start—and eventually taught at every level in barrios and prisons and insurgent projects across the United States. I learned then that education is never neutral. It always has a value, a position, a politics. Education either reinforces or challenges the existing social order, and school is always a contested space – what should be taught? In what way? Toward what end? By and for whom? At bottom, it involves a struggle over the essential questions: what does it mean to be a human being living in a human society?
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There is no link...its a printout of book titles...the book is titled “Holler if you Hear Me.” Its not a sociology course. Its a book for “Teaching Diverse Student Populations in Secondary Schools:....a required course for my teaching credential. I have started reading and really dont see a connection to the course at all.
For those who do not know, the 'police killing' mentioned in this latest video on Bill Ayers and his revolutionary communist / "domestic terrorist" organization, the Weather Underground, occurred during a 1981 Brinks truck robbery in Upstate, New York. Details at:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066765/posts
CSU Fullerton
Let me ask you this, what kind of book do you think something called “Teaching for Social Justice” edited by a know terrorist and America hater is going to be? My suggestion is to find a different teaching college. There are hundreds of them that don’t promote socialism.
Are you a student or a teacher in this course? If you are a teacher, teach your students that this is commie crap, and that one of the editors is a non-repentent communist. Introduce them to Saul Alinsky and Antonio Gramsci.
I’ve been calling it secular theology. It is a belief system that there is a government program that will solve all the world’s ills if we just offer up enough money.
I also like euphemism for communisim.
Get used to it. College campuses are run by anti-American left-wing kooks who think they are smarter than everyone else.
No, i am student looking to become a teacher.
Steal a copy of the book.
Seriously.
Tempting, rather tempting. But that only harms my morals.
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