Misadventures in Multicultural Studies Indoctrination

[Valin]

Gay Patriot:

Kurt

March 23, 2013.

 

 

Jeff’s post the other day about the questionable workshop at Brown University came to mind recently when I saw a very far-left Facebook friend link to this article by a professor named Warren Blumenfeld who had just retired from a position as a professor of education at Iowa State University. The article contains the professor’s reflections and gives voice to both his lamentations and his indignity about those students who took his class who were not won over to his worldview and who had the temerity to announce that fact in their final papers.

 

The course was entitled “Multicultural Foundations in Schools and Society,” and Blumenfeld describes it in the following terms:

 

I base the course on a number of key concepts and assumptions, including how issues of power, privilege, and domination within the United States center on inequitable social divisions regarding race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, sex, gender identity, sexual identity, religion, nationality, linguistic background, physical and mental ability/disability, and age. I address how issues around social identities impact generally on life outcomes, and specifically on educational outcomes. Virtually all students registered for this course, which is mandatory for students registered in the Teacher Education program, are pre-service teachers.

 

In other words, this is a required course in “multicultural studies” indoctrination. If the course were voluntary, it would be a slightly different situation, but as a required course, it amounts to an example of the sort of thing that conservatives can easily point to as illustrating the left-wing biases of academia.

 

Professor Blumenfeld is particularly alarmed by the case of two female students who tell him quite boldly that the course has not changed their socially conservative Christian worldview:

 

 

(Snip)

 

 

 

Dear Dr Blumenfeld

 

Life is full of disappointments...This is one of them....Deal With It!

 

Yours

Valin

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It is hard to believe these kinds of courses are required.

[Valin]

It is hard to believe these kinds of courses are required.

 

I wish I could find it hard to believe.