[Xmca-l] Re: The Features of a Social Situation of Development of Children under Modern Russian Conditions

[Ulvi İçil]

Thank you Helena. I am glad that it is useful.

Ulvi



28 Nis 2020 Sal 21:08 tarihinde Helena Worthen <helenaworthen@gmail.com>
şunu yazdı:

> Ulvi, thank you!  you can’t guess how timely and useful this article is to
> me at this moment!  Now I owe a whole chain of thanks here, including one
> to the reader of our draft book on union organizing in the California State
> University system over 40 years — our reader put a pencil question mark
> next to the phrase “distortions of human development under capitalism…”
> which I thought was a no-brainer until I saw her mark. Another thanks to
> you and Andy and yet another to this whole list — how else would I have
> found this paper you sent?
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> Two points that I can use this paper to clarify:
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> One is that a key interviewee had taught in the CSUs in the 1970s-80s,
> left and came back in the late 90s.  while he was gone the system changed
> from being free/no tuition to charging tuition, the student body changed
> from high school graduates to working people in their late 20s and 30s,
> more women, more minorities — and accumulating debt. Also the teaching
> workforce was becoming increasingly non-tenure track — contingent. when he
> comes back to teaching he’s disturbed by the change in the attitude of
> students toward learning - impatient, grade-conscious, competitive,
> unwilling to do things that don’t “count.”
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> The other is the change in the psychology of the non-tenure line
> (contingent) faculty as they become the majority of the teaching workforce
> and get organized. The “ideal adult” of the old days was the tenured
> faculty member, usually a white male, viewing the world of academia through
> “the tenured gaze” — from the seat of privilege.  The shift in the teaching
> workforce demographic from tenure-line to majority contingent (a product of
> the corporatization of the university) eclipsed that ideal and opened up
> space for a much more activist ideal, a kind of professor for whom a
> commitment to union activity was part of their professional equipment.
> Building on this it was possible for the union to mount a credible strike
> threat across all 23 campuses and bargain what are arguably the best
> contract for contingent faculty in the US.
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> The second thing was actually a good thing — it brought out the fight. Of
> course that takes a lot of preparation.
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> Thanks again —
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> Helena Worthen
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> On Apr 27, 2020, at 4:12 PM, Ulvi İçil <ulvi.icil@gmail.com> wrote:
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