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Annie Murphy Paul’s “Are College Lectures Unfair?” is a well-written research based argument, but is it solid? In her article she questions “Does the college lecture discriminate? Is it biased against undergraduates who are not white, male and affluent?” She spends the rest of her essay providing evidence that active learning would benefit students who are “female, minorities and low income first generation college students”, while passive learning provides a bases for discrimination against the under- privileged. Unfortunately, while making good points, her essay is unfair. I think she’s the one being biased. Her predisposed claim makes it seem like only the teachers are at fault for teaching their students in a passive way by providing such …show more content…
Paul seems to make it out as something that we struggle through as students and can’t bear to hear the teacher say another word. Lectures are important, if done correctly, students do enjoy it. Students can speak their mind, compare and contrast, disagree and agree etc. we shouldn’t throw that away for mere view or thought of active learning. Active learning will not fit all courses, such as humanities, talking about ancient art works is all you can do in a sense because you can’t magically uncover another Picasso in the back of your classroom closet. Seems like the research that Paul provides in her article is from people who have never heard of a good lecture and have failed to observe what really happens in lecture. Her point is not clear. Is she talking about boring lectures? Good and bad lectures? …show more content…
Does that mean every female who feels discriminated in a classroom based lecture should study from a computer screen? As a female, I would never think that I should move to an online learning environment just to be equal with my male peers. It is absurd to think that moving females to an online environment is a solution for discrimination in a classroom setting. Her whole article is grounded on a specific cultural form that favors some people while discriminating against others, including women, minorities, and low-income and first generation college students (Paul 1). How is online classes going to change that? Even if there was a chance you were convinced by Paul’s argument this statement crashes is all down the drain. She is basically affirming that online classes, which are filled with many reading materials and quizzes, engage in active learning, which is true because the professor has no choice. Professors cannot give an active lecture over the computer. As a student, I am currently enrolled in two online classes: sociology and anthropology. There is no way that a professor can assist students through an online class without any tests or assessments, it can’t be based off just reading material because how is the professor going to know if the student is doing well or not? So indeed it is necessary that tests and
In her article, Worthen, claims that lecturing the “old fashioned way” is the true and correct way for students to learn in a classroom environment on a higher level. She
In Campus Racism 101 Nikki Giovanni states that, “this world cannot allow white students to go through college without interacting with Blacks in authoritative figures.” (Writing on the River 12) The Atlantic Online states that in 1994, the same year Nikki Giovanni published Campus Racism 101, only 11 percent of black people make up the College student body. (Andrew Mcgill) All of these things considering, 1994 was the perfect time to write this article. Giovanni’s personal essay does many brilliant things in her article. She effectively ties in actual questions black students will face, gives advice on how to succeed in college, and gives points on how to gain your instructor’s respect. All of these things she states in the article will help any student in College. The only thing it does not do well is the length of the article. As a whole the article feels like it could have touched on a few more points such as going in a little deeper on the positives of a College
Caroline Bird writes the statement in her 1975 article “The Case Against College (Bird 15-18)” that not every high school graduate is ready to attend college. It is 2010 and this article is still valid today. Some of the college students I have been around were not mature enough for obedience school let alone college. A few of the points she makes in the article are: College has never worked its magic for everyone. Does it make you a better person? Are colleges responsible for your children? Are my children living in a country club? I will use some of my own experiences as an example of college life, as well as examples from my daughter’s college experience, along with my nephews as well. All to find the answer to the big question: Are you ready for a college education?
While it is more directed towards supporters of AA to convince them of his own standpoint, it is also intended for a general audience. He begins his argument with a statement, “Like the majority of my graduating class, I am applying to college. I am also white (Connolly).” Immediately, one can predict bias in the article. The fact that the author is white is problematic because he has not faced the same discrimination that the minorities of which AA is supposed to benefit have faced. Therefore, his judgement of AA would be clouded by his white-centered perspective. In forming his argument, he proposes a question, “Now imagine that another student, a minority who is perhaps slightly less qualified, is given your place simply because of race. Is this fair? No (Connolly).” In this passage, he uses pathos for the reader to sympathize with him, attempting to place them in his shoes to see more through his perspective. However, he does not present factual information or hard evidence. Rather than addressing the actual debate for AA, he bases his claim on his own opinions and feelings, which does little to strengthen his argument. He also states, “After all, those who currently benefit from rectifying society's oppression of
She analyzed conversations among her students to find out what helped them in becoming engaged in the classroom discussion. The class she chose as her subject had eleven women and nine men. Tannen said that she observed the class for a good amount of time when she concluded that almost all the men talked in class occasionally. The student who talked the most in class was a woman, but then she mentions almost half of the women did not speak at all in class. Tannen decided to divide her class in ways where she could prove her thesis statement that having both genders in the same classroom is an issue. She analyzed the students, separated them into three groups that are relevant to each, from their degree, gender, and the conversation style that she observed from each student. Naturally, she focused on how the all-woman group became talkative once the men were gone. At this point of her essay, she focused too much on what she was trying to prove with her thesis statement rather than really giving the readers to consider the other side of the story. As Tannen goes on with explaining the experiment she conducted in class, she started to divert with including the ethnicity of some students. The foreign students tend to talk less despite what gender, therefore counting the validity of their contribution out. The information provided towards the end of the essay started to become irrelevant. This part of her essay was very weak, showing some obvious bias as she was sharing the information
If the article was written to people who had already completed college and were well into their careers, it would be a pointless essay. Same goes for if the essay was written for people who had no plans on ever attending college. This essay was specifically written for those who are either about to enter college or have opportunities to transfer still. The author wants the audience to make the best decisions on what kind of institution is best for receiving and retaining knowledge. He also wants future prospects to see that so much more happens in college than just learning and the overall experience as a whole is what shapes one into an intellectual person. This is seen through his comment when he communicates that while some “working adults pursuing clearly defined vocational programs” (Neem 93) may learn wonderfully in an online environment, overall “we must deepen our commitment to those institutions that cultivate a love for learning in their students” (Neem 94). He wants an audience that sees the importance of furthering their education in the right environment like he does. This audience along with an intellectual appeal complement each other well in this argument and lead to an overall good
how often student have to speak that makes the class great and participation grades take off? According to Schuman and some other professor, who have implemented same teaching processes such as engaging students in a small group presentation, interactive worksheeets, and coerced participation found that class involment helped students to overcome fear. Such activities encourage all kinds of the student to take part in class and establish good participation. However, some Professor didn't care about a students class participation. As a result, the shy student left behind the course. throughout the article, Schuman clearly explains as a mentor to the reticent students and the outspoken students how to plan for course, take part in the lesson and boost grades. For example, Schuman wrote, "The wide-eyed earnestness of a timid but studious young person can melt a professor's overworked little heart." She encourages the shy students to keep touch with the professor and ask a substantive question before or after class, visit office hours and E-mail. In addition, she said, "While you are doing the reading, you will likely find that two or three questions come to your mind. Write those questions down so that you can just ask verbatim during class." She teaches outspoken student how to prepare for a lesson before attending class. She shrewdly contends, that the outspoken student
Imagine living in a time when your only role is to get married, bear children, and take care of your house and husband. Adrienne Rich proposes an ulterior idea in her essay “Taking Women Students Seriously” Women should not only question the gender standards but discuss the gender norms that society has created; by discussion and attention to the matter we can eliminate it all together. Women are not represented in school curriculums enough and have a large misrepresentation in society. Rich draws attention to: What women have working against them in education, how women are perceived in the world by the media and advertising, and the gender roles that society pressures young children to contort to. By striking up a discussion
Affirmative action has been a controversial topic ever since it was established in the 1960s to right past wrongs against minority groups, such as African Americans, Hispanics, and women. The goal of affirmative action is to integrate minorities into public institutions, like universities, who have historically been discriminated against in such environments. Proponents claim that it is necessary in order to give minorities representation in these institutions, while opponents say that it is reverse discrimination. Newsweek has a story on this same debate which has hit the nation spotlight once more with a case being brought against the University of Michigan by some white students who claimed that the University’s admissions policies accepted minority students over them, even though they had better grades than the minority students. William Symonds of Business Week, however, thinks that it does not really matter. He claims that minority status is more or less irrelevant in college admissions and that class is the determining factor.
That the University should remain off limits to the majority of working class and most middle class youth, but that it should be made “diverse” through the selective admission of a small percentage of minority students, who are given preference over qualified white students.
This indicates the fear and doubt affirmative action creates for minority groups. Acceptance into college is an earned privilege, a privilege that one has to work for his or her entire childhood to achieve. Schoolwork, homework, sacrifices; children do these things since they are little to assure their acceptance into a college. It is a rite of passage that society looks forward to. Yet, affirmative action can be taken as a condescension and insult to those people by implying that minorities cannot achieve their goals through hard work and ability. Moreover, instead of trying to strive for the best possibility, affirmative action allows African Americans to use the injustices, which is slavery, as an excuse as to why they cannot be successful today.
Tanabe, C. (2009). From the courtroom to the voting booth: Defending affirmative action in higher education. Philosophy of Education Yearbook, 291–300.
What is discrimination? Merriam Webster, defines it as “the practice of unfairly treating a person or group of people differently from other people or groups of people”. But more generally, why does it occur? Is it because of inherent inferiority, or is it simply conformity? These questions are generally unanswered in today's society, but can be understood through careful analysis of what it means to discriminate. The text, A Class Divided, by William Peters attacks this question through analyzing both sides of the discrimination spectrum (ie. the inferior and superior group) from the perspective children. In response to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Jane Elliott, a third grade teacher in a predominantly white, middle-class
Over the last couple of weeks, all of the readings, lectures, discussions and videos have been very informative. A lot of the information in the readings are what people experience daily or witness with their own eyes. The issues going on with class, gender, and race can be upsetting and hard to grasp because the reality of the matter is we live in a very segregated and divided society. Topics in the lecture that stood out were racial inequality and social movement. When it comes to racial inequality, I witnessed a similar situation while in undergraduate school. A professor at my school displayed hidden racial misconduct towards a black female student in a course.
Throughout these silent scenarios of sexism in the classroom, more and more women today are being robbed of "knowledge and self-esteem." ( Sadker 234) These young women slowly lose their confidence to respond to the professors during class discussions. Only because they feel that they are not as intelligent as their male counterparts. Why must a woman answer a question with a phrase like: "This probably isn't right but" and "I'm not sure if this is what you want, but"? (Sadker 235)