In a report compiled last summer, the Race, Culture, Class and Gender Task Group at the U's College of Education and Human Development recommended that aspiring teachers there must repudiate the notion of "the American Dream" in order to obtain the recommendation for licensure required by the Minnesota Board of Teaching. Instead, teacher candidates must embrace -- and be prepared to teach our state's kids -- the task force's own vision of America as an oppressive hellhole: racist, sexist and homophobic.
The first step toward "cultural competence," says the task group, is for future teachers to recognize -- and confess -- their own bigotry. Anyone familiar with the reeducation camps of China's Cultural Revolution will recognize the modus operandi.
The goal of these exercises, in the task group's words, is to ensure that "future teachers will be able to discuss their own histories and current thinking drawing on notions of white privilege, hegemonic masculinity, heteronormativity, and internalized oppression."
This "education" explains the growing numbers of functionally illiterate pseudo-Americans who support Obama and Pelosi's ongoing campaign to "fundamentally transform" the country into their version of Red China. Too many Americans, and their teachers, have been dumbed down by eighty years of Progressive education's attack upon the American mind. The results are the creatures who created the above program.
The educrats at most universities are incapable of generating an original thought. All they are able to do is regurgitate the hate laced rants of race-class-gender that have been manufactured by professional cultural Marxists who know their craft of intellectual corruption. The purpose of government primary schools is now to indoctrinate children with the party line. The purpose of academic education departments and colleges is to ensure that few, if any, dissenters ever receive a state teaching certificate.
Crossposted at The Dougout
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Raymond Ibrahim has an extraordinarily informative article on how Islamic doctrine affects Muslims living in non-Muslim states. Don't miss the link to the fatwa. It makes the reader understand how the most neighborly and "generous" devout Muslims can be among the most dangerous in the long run, because ultimately everything depends on the triumph of Islam. Even their "righteousness" comes with that string attached.
According to the fatwa, Muslims are forbidden from harming those who do not attack Islam. Of course, as we have seen, "attack Islam" is a highly elastic term. Dawah can take the concept of catching more flies with honey to such extraordinary lengths that the "flies" are unaware of the trap until it closes. This is why confrontation with Muslims is as necessary as a home smoke alarm -- you may not know your hair is on fire until one of these people goes off. That is the lesson Ibrahim hopes we will take from Nidal Hasan and Fort Hood.
Ooops, forgot to mention it's at JihadWatch.
Grant, is the Minnesota program at the extreme edge or is this representative of what goes on in teacher education today?
RRA, I don't think the UM program is in any way outside the mainsewer of teacher education. I took just one class on "education" as an undergrad. It was so god awful that I never took another.
And don't forget the University of Delaware's "student life" program.* The main difference with these two programs is their candor.
* http://kalapanapundit.blogspot.com/2007/11/none-dare-call-it-indoctrination.html
Not too long ago, a similar effort was underway at the University of Delaware with their mandated Ideological Reeducation Program ("treatment" for student's incorrect attitudes and beliefs). The program's stated goal was for the approximately 7k students in Delaware's residence halls to adopt highly specific university-approved views on politics, race, sexuality, sociology, moral philosophy and environmentalism.
FIRE subsequently reported UD was forced to retreat after being forced into the spotlight.
Apparently this instution needs to have the high beam focused on their version of this indoctrination. Glad to see this posted.
Students, faculty, and administration have already reacted to the "article" that you have linked to here.
It is a complete distortion of what is really going on, and only written for sensationalist purposes. Look into it yourself. Unless you are already a right-wing nutjob who thinks anything other than right-wing nutjobbery is communism, you will see that it is nothing out of the ordinary.
Do not claim to stand for reason if you succumb to sensationalism so easily.
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