Study criticizes engineering programs for focusing on math and science

[TalkRadio]

We recently discussed how University of Illinois math professor Rochelle Gutierrez triggered a national controversy over her work “Building Support for Scholarly Practices in Mathematics Methods” in which she criticized math classes as a “tool of whiteness.”

Then we discussed CUNY Professor Laurie Rubel’s publishing of a peer-reviewed article in the Journal of Mathematics Education arguing that the concepts of meritocracy and “color-blindness” are ideological precepts that work against minorities.

Now four professors denouncing the “hegemony of meritocratic ideology” and the “masculine culture” in engineering courses as hostile to women. University of California (Irvine) Professor Carroll Serron’s March 1 study insists that merit-based advancement in engineering is harming women and fails to consider political factors in recognizing engineers. The professors criticize the focus on “empirical science, technical thinking, merit, and individualism” as the cause for the isolation of female engineers.

https://jonathanturley.org/2018/03/...h-and-science-rather-than-political-concerns/

 

[Libsam]

"Math and science is a tool for the white man."
No, it's a tool for everyone on the fucking planet. Some just have a better ability to apply those tools than others.

We were all born equal, some of us are just in different places in the evolutionary process.


Remember that meme that was flying around a few years ago. Something like "They wanna take you back to the 50s".

Here's my reply, "They wanna take us back to the Stone Age".

 

[thør]

https://media.local10.com/photo/2018/03/10/Florida%20International%20University%27s%20pedestrian%20bridge%20swings%20into%20place20180310231804.jpg_11774506_ver1.0_1280_720.jpg

Let's make pretty bridges.

 

[Libsam]

Let's make pretty bridges.

That's what happens when people dismiss the law of gravity on earth because it doesn't apply in outer space.

Then they replace the law of gravity on earth with the theory of special relativity, then it's logical to them that if a bridge is special and pretty, then it's a working bridge!

 

[BBX3]

they are right

they should focus on CUNT STUDIES

and build bridges like in Flori DUH!