Open Access#occupyoureducation
Author(s) -
Cathy Borck,
Jesse A. Goldstein,
Steve McFarland,
Alyson Spurgas
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the radical teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1941-0832
pISSN - 0191-4847
DOI - 10.5195/rt.2013.21
Subject(s) - politics , sociology , center (category theory) , join (topology) , media studies , political science , law , chemistry , mathematics , combinatorics , crystallography
In the fall of 2011, Jesse was invited to teach an Occupy Wall Street-inspired course in the Political Science Department at Brooklyn College, a campus of The City University of New York (CUNY). In the spirit of Occupy’s horizontalism, self-organization, and de-centering of authority, Jesse reached out to people in his political-academic networks, asking if anyone wanted to join him in team-teaching the course. A handful of doctoral students from the CUNY Graduate Center responded with interest, and six of us moved forward as the instructors, or “Team Taught,” as we referred to ourselves
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