Delegating curriculum reform to the complainers burdens the excluded student

Evidence

Often, students have come to my office complaining about the lack of inclusion in an other professor’s class. For example, a course on social and political thought in the United States includes no work by women. When students complain to the teacher about this lack of inclusion, they are told to make suggestions of material that can be used. This often places an unfair burden on a student. It also makes it seem that it is only important to address a bias if there is someone complaining. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 92

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Curriculum that conflicts with student values can silence and disconnect those students — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 740

Broader Connections

• Curriculum that conflicts with student values can silence and disconnect those students #expands (0.78) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 740