Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while Spence, Thernstrom and the students decline to discuss the specific charges against Thernstrom, the case has sparked a public discussion of how sensitive issues are presented in the classroom...
...paradigms of historical study," says Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies and History David W. Blight, who teaches courses on Reconstruction and modern Afro-American history. He says the newness of these fields leaves unresolved questions about what it is and is not appropriate to teach in the classroom...
...Foner says that objections to his course today are less political and can be resolved without taking the issue beyond the classroom. "You want open and frank discussion of ideas as long as it remains within the boundaries of intellectual discourse," he says...
Kilson, who teaches a course on ethnicity in American society, says he often uses the derogatory language to which minorities have traditionally been subjected as a way of making his point in the classroom. "I will use that language--wop or dago or nigger or kike--to make the point," he says. "Language that might shock the pedagogical discourse about the issue...
Sometimes the process of communication between the professor and students breaks down when sensitive issues are raised. And instructors say that to some extent these disputes are inevitable as non-traditional fields become integrated into the classroom. "That happens when you open doors," Kilson says. "You can't have omelettes unless you break eggs...