Re: AT and tenure

From: Bruce Robinson (bruce.rob@btinternet.com)
Date: Thu Jun 06 2002 - 07:55:07 PDT


> 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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