Sunday, May 3, 2020
Qi Chen,
ASA 002 A04
Week 6 Blog
In reading the article, Opening the Box, An International Asian Woman Scholar's Fight, I noticed a very interesting phenomenon. When the author asked his male colleagues if they had any misbehaved students and how to deal with these students, they replied that they had never found misbehaved students in their thirty or forty years of the educational experience. As a student, I think it's very doubtful, especially the author's defined "improper behavior" is not only cheating in the exam but also "sign in for her for severe class meetings in order to gain attendance credit." In my student days, no matter my classmates or I have done the "improper behavior" to make their scores higher, of course, not that I cheated in the exam. Do male professors, who have at least tens of thousands of students, really feel that their students have not done anything improper? Not to mention the authenticity of the information, when the author considered that "my students have improper behavior because I do not do well enough." It's very ridiculous, because I don't recognize that as the teacher's problem, and she shouldn't question herself. Students' improper behavior may be caused by their family education, enlightenment teachers, social factors, not by this female professor.
Her self-doubt makes me assume it's a sense of inferiority. She didn't question the authenticity of the male professor's answer or blame the students for their wrong behavior but believed that she had made mistakes in her work. I admit it's part of her fault, but it's not the first thing she should suspect. Many Asian women are self abased, both in academia and in life. Some of the Asian women deem that they or their compatriots are not beautiful enough and that they are not good at housework. As the professor, the writer thought her students cheat because she was an Asian woman, so they did not respect her. If I can communicate with this professor directly, I will definitely remind her that this is not her problem, but the students' problem. She should let these students be punished, not feel inferiority and pain. Maybe she should do more research and ask more people if they have any experience in students' misbehavior. Maybe she can also do an anonymous survey and ask her students if they have ever done anything improper in their study and life. I believe her judgments will be different. Asian women must be confident. Only when they believe in themselves can they have enough power to deliver their beliefs. And only when they believe in themselves can they fight for more rights. Most of the time, it's not our own problem, and don't let ourselves suffer because of others' mistakes.
Valverde, K.-L. C., & Dariotis, W. M. (2020). Fight the tower: Asian
American women scholars resistance and renewal in the academy. New
Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, PP.207-209.
In reading the article, Opening the Box, An International Asian Woman Scholar's Fight, I noticed a very interesting phenomenon. When the author asked his male colleagues if they had any misbehaved students and how to deal with these students, they replied that they had never found misbehaved students in their thirty or forty years of the educational experience. As a student, I think it's very doubtful, especially the author's defined "improper behavior" is not only cheating in the exam but also "sign in for her for severe class meetings in order to gain attendance credit." In my student days, no matter my classmates or I have done the "improper behavior" to make their scores higher, of course, not that I cheated in the exam. Do male professors, who have at least tens of thousands of students, really feel that their students have not done anything improper? Not to mention the authenticity of the information, when the author considered that "my students have improper behavior because I do not do well enough." It's very ridiculous, because I don't recognize that as the teacher's problem, and she shouldn't question herself. Students' improper behavior may be caused by their family education, enlightenment teachers, social factors, not by this female professor.
Her self-doubt makes me assume it's a sense of inferiority. She didn't question the authenticity of the male professor's answer or blame the students for their wrong behavior but believed that she had made mistakes in her work. I admit it's part of her fault, but it's not the first thing she should suspect. Many Asian women are self abased, both in academia and in life. Some of the Asian women deem that they or their compatriots are not beautiful enough and that they are not good at housework. As the professor, the writer thought her students cheat because she was an Asian woman, so they did not respect her. If I can communicate with this professor directly, I will definitely remind her that this is not her problem, but the students' problem. She should let these students be punished, not feel inferiority and pain. Maybe she should do more research and ask more people if they have any experience in students' misbehavior. Maybe she can also do an anonymous survey and ask her students if they have ever done anything improper in their study and life. I believe her judgments will be different. Asian women must be confident. Only when they believe in themselves can they have enough power to deliver their beliefs. And only when they believe in themselves can they fight for more rights. Most of the time, it's not our own problem, and don't let ourselves suffer because of others' mistakes.
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