Teaching.

[amoreno]

Recently I've begun to toy with the idea of making a call for folks (especially a certain group of folks who don't lack Vitamin D in the winter, if you know what I mean..... ... ....) to come together and work on creating a "pedagogy of the benefaciaries of oppression

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[innana88]

I just wrote a very lengthy response and then somehow deleted the whole thing.

In short, the privileged dominate my class in terms of race and class. Gender is about 50/50.

My class discussions and lectures are always geared toward teaching the privilged. When I do that, those that are in the minority get that I get it and feel validated and empowered, but it is the hearts and minds of those who hold more power that I need to change

[amoreno]

So I guess my next question would be (i'm trying to ask more questions rather than assume I have answers these days) do you think that you do/would change your style/practivce in the "classroom" if your students were ALL women/queer folks? And if your students were ALL men? And why?

Thanks for sharing, by the way.

I really like the idea of framing oppression as something that, one way or the other, hurts everyone. I do share that view yet often struggle on how to apply it to the practice of education/organizing. This is KEY to building a new world!

[innana88]

No problem

[mikiencolor]

They term it differently because it is emasculating for a man to say he was violated at all, much more so if it was by a woman. I would use the terms that are acceptable in "man speak" so that we could get past semantics.

In my opinion this kind of patronising treatment goes nowhere. All it does is reinforce the underlying "machista" mentality. Transformative education is education away from this attitude, not playing to it. What do the males who don't want to talk in "man speak" and want to talk about the ways they feel violated by male supremacy do? Why should the "manly" ones control the discourse?