Jeanne Curran
Wed, 03 Apr 2002 10:18:12 -0800
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From: "Kara Cain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Update and report of learning
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 17:22:27 -0500
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Jeanne,
I am very thankful to have a professor like you. You allow your students to have lives while in your class. I am taking 19hrs again this semester which is starting to catch up with me. During spring break my mother was ill and had to go to the hospital. Once my mother was released my sister took ill as well. The sickness has finally traveled to me. WE are also trying to locate a home to move into. It is amazing to me how some professors expect me to keep ticking when everything around me is crumbling.
In a way this shows dominance of some professors. My mother, who also attends Sominguez, finds that some professors are threatned by adult students in their class. Students that are closer to their age is what i'm referring to. Being that my mother is grown, professors sometimes feel the need to challenge her in front of the class. This is a ploy to demean or belittle her. I find this complelely unnecessary and a sign of low self-esteem on the behalf of the professors. The professors want no opposing viewpoints and they want their opinion to be the bible. This is the type of environment that stiffles learning and is structurally violent.
I think that this is a great issue to argue, the dominance in the classroom and its effect on learning. I would like to maybe argue this point. What can we do to stop this type of class setting from persisting.
Kara Cain
Moot Court
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