Re: academic freedom

Mary Bryson (brys who-is-at unixg.ubc.ca)
Wed, 4 Aug 1999 11:20:25 -0700

Paul dillon wrote: 'Mary Daly was engaged in an
>anti-affirmative action teaching practice by definition and law. "

Forgive my ignorance here, but as a Canadian, I clearly don't totally
understand the meaning of "affirmative action". How could one construe
Daly's pedagogy as anti- affirmative action. My notion of a-a is that an
institution chooses to do something "special" and maybe ordinarily against
the law for one group - on the basis of that group's established history of
oppression. qua
Mary Daly's pedagogy for women only is just such a strategy - to elect a
context within which (research shows) girls and women learn better, that
is, without males.

What have I misunderstood?

Mary

Dr. Mary Bryson, Associate Professor and UBC Scholar 1999,
Faculty of Education, UBC
Principal Co-Investigator: GenTech Project

http://www.educ.sfu.ca/gentech/