Good Morning, Colleagues,
As you may have noted in this morning's Inside Higher Ed,
the Globe and Mail reports that a male student protested
having to meet with a learning group containing females in a course
he was taking.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/education/religious-accommodation-or-accessory-to-sexism-york-students-case-stirs-debate/article16246401/
Suppose you had such a student, male or female, who was a regular,
full-time on-campus student, in your TBL course, but refused
to meet with peers of the other gender. How would you handle this?
How would your institution react to this potentially legally fraught
situation? What are the implications for a TBL course as a whole of
granting this kind of request? Would the situation be any different
for objections to meeting with gays? transsexual students? members
of other ethnicities?
Lion Gardiner
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Lion F. Gardiner, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Zoology
Rutgers University
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