Speaker: quote” challenged” teachers about” students ‘ resistance to traditional teaching methods”
A teachers ‘ professional growth in Winnipeg, Canada featured the text” Resistance to imperialism is not extremism” on a large scoreboard screen.
The Winnipeg Jets ‘ Canada Life Centre, where the NHL’s Winnipeg Jets are based, was the venue for the presentation speech Christopher Emdin.
Columbia University’s Emdin, who spoke to some 5, 000 teachers in presence just two weeks after Monday’s one-year anniversary of Hamas ‘ attack against Israel, claimed the quote was intended to” problem” teachers about” individuals ‘ resistance to standard training methods”, CTV News reports.
About a hundred instructors walked out of the lecture, one saying,” Note: This is not the place to make a reply, nor did it fit with what we were led to believe this was going to get on.”
Another claimed that the statement was” an anti-Semitic post disguised as a discussion around education and teaching”
Superintendent Matt Henderson of the Winnipeg School Division apologized to those who used the word to refer to the ongoing Middle East conflict.
The lessons we impart cannot be learned from trying to downplay and redefine terrorism as opposition to colonialism, Henderson said. ” There is no ownership in terrorism”.
Emdin ( pictured ) initially took umbrage at the complaints, noting on social media he was talking “very specifically about colonial teaching practices and students ]sic ] sometimes intimidating/aggressive responses”.
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Various views of the offer, he added, are “intellectually deceptive and a gross deception of the views”.
Emdin stated in a speech to CTV News that the quotation “was intended to challenge the way that we as teachers frequently interpret individuals ‘ resistance to standard teaching methods.”
” Labeling or treating their anger or opposition as unreasonable, violent, unjustified or a representation of their incompetence to be good people structures them as” terroristic” – this is not only dangerous, but also deeply misplaced”, he said.
Embid did, however, apologize if the phrase “in any means conjured up any feelings of hurt or harm.”
Let us interpret that pain as a representation of the emotions our underprivileged kids experience every day, he said.
The president of the Canadian Palestinian Association of Manitoba said Emdin “did n’t say anything about Palestine or Israel,” while the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg and the Centre For Israel and Jewish Affairs also criticized the quote. Not everything is about Middle Eastern issue.
According to his faculty page, Emdin is a professor of science education whose “scholarly interests” include” the intersection of theory and practice in science education”, “race, classs]sic ] and diversity in education”, and” Hip-Hop Education”.
His guide,” For Light Folks Who Teach in the Hood… and the Rest of Y’all Very,” is based on “his own encounter feeling undervalued and visible in classrooms as a young man of color.”
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