This benefit applies to everyone involved, students, faculty, everyone. Do not send people off to do something that you or your ally is not even doing. If it s important, find a way to help them develop a course . It is his experience that people are eager to discuss these ideas and eager for quasi-seminar benefits of team teaching. Since I don t belong to a minority group, there will be resentment if I try to teach about one.
Students already have a wide range of ethnic studies and women studies courses they can take.
They are better off learning the material from specialists. There is no room in my syllabus. The purpose of this book is to provide practical answers to such dilemmas. Following are some preliminary comments on these issues. I can t teach about minority or oppressed groups because I have not experienced their problems, and those in the class who have will resent my attempts.