RE: AT and tenure

From: Stetsenko, Anna (AStetsenko@gc.cuny.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 06 2002 - 09:48:24 PDT


 I did want to ask too, actually. Would appreciate if you elaborate, Mike,
these questions (who and how gets criticized for which exactly communist
ideas) are not external to our more theoretical concerns. If we see science
as not value- and politics-free...

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Robinson
To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
Sent: 6/6/2002 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: AT and tenure

> I certainly hope you are correct, Anna-
> For many many years people associated with Vygotskian points of view
> were heavily discriminated against in american academic circles and
> now, having become largely domesticated and seen by some as
fashionably
> de-marxified, such positions can be an advantage (although in Michigan
> for example, state legislators have criticized academics for using
> communist ideas by theVygotsky guy within the last year or two).

I am morbidly curious about this. If you've time, can you provide
details,
Mike?

Bruce Robinson

> It seems to me that helena's position is particularly paradoxical
because
> she works for an institution which is directly involved in labor
> education. I failed to understand from your note that the same applied
> to the person you were refering to. I that job was at a more
mainstream
> academic institution.
> mike
>



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