This week we focused on the part of the reading, "
Academic Symbiosis: A Manifesto on Tenure and Promotion in Asian American Studies", by Wei Ming Dariotis. The aim of Wei Ming Dariots to write this book is to establish a supportive system in the academia so that a healthy learning environment will be created for students and professors, as they are all under great pressure. Although there is definitely competition in the academia, but the kind of competition should be positive, that is based on goodwill and moral behaviors, not for self interest or something else. I really wish such system can be built and spread through universities so that more proportion of students and faculties can share the similar amount of resources and receive similar amount of respect from each other.
The sense of competition is unaviodable in the academia, but the motivation of competition should be mainly based on everyone's average self-improving. If the competition is based on harming others' benefits or making other feel uncomfortable in the environment, it is not a good competition in the academia. One question developed is that how do we transit the competition into cooperation?
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"What is a Modern Learning Environment?", 2018, https://edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2018/02/what-modern-learning-environment
Valverde, K.L.C (2013). Fight The Tower: Asian American Women Scholars Resistance and Renewal in the Academy. Rutgers University Press
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