Word: tools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...computer methodology for the social sciences, it became a political target because of its Department of Defense (DOD) funding. In the uneasy political atmosphere of that fall, the Faculty debated whether to join the Project on an institutional basis while radical pickets, petitions, and demonstrations attacked it as a tool of U.S. government hegemony at home and abroad. While radicals attacked it as counter-revolutionary in intent, liberals accepted it as "value-neutral" basic research but questioned the ethical implications of DOD funding...
...Pool put it, the Project's methodology is like the simple statistical tool of averaging: student protester, social scientist, and government official alike can use averaging to draw a conclusion or prove a point. But computer methodology, even if available to everyone, is helpful only to those with the computers, the funds, and the technical competence to use it. The unequal distribution of technical and financial resources narrows down the potential users to the government and government-funded university research. (Large corporations may find the techniques useful but so far they have done little work in this area.) Project participants...
...divided into two groups, the oppressors and the oppressed, each group essential for the other's existence. An ability to see all people and actions as being with one or against one, as wearing white or black hats with no shades of grey allowed, is a useful political tool in clearly defining the enemy that must be attacked. But it also denies the basic humanity that even the oppressors can process. Freire rejects liberal or progressive reforms initiated by seemingly well-meaning members of the ruling class as attempts to preserve the oppressor's power, "Let us carry out reforms...
...hope that your objective report on busing will help the public understand that the issue that matters is not the bus ride but what is at the end of the bus ride. If discrimination can be reduced, if children can receive a better education, then every educational tool, including busing, should be used. Success or failure rests not with the bus but with the dedication of leadership to a truly equal education system and society...
...Blacks do not want to exchange their culture for white culture. All they are demanding is their constitutional right to attend schools of far better standing than those of the ghetto. Education will then give black people the "tool" to further enrich their own culture...