She details a century’s worth of accusations and scapegoating, showing that today’s right-wing provocateurs are carrying on a tradition nearly as old as the American university itself. One of the most persistent accusations against academics is that we are guilty of indoctrination.
To avoid indoctrination requires that we remain aware of our authority over students, lest we abuse our power and infringe upon their autonomy. Indoctrination is not just the promotion of certain beliefs in our students; it’s an effort to change their beliefs and instill a fear or reluctance to consider conflicting evidence.
First, it depends on a combination of factors. You can totally flop a course or two here and there. At my school all grad students have annual reviews by their respective program’s faculty to track their progress. A failing grade will definitely be a red flag but if it's the 1st one don't sweat it.
The consequences of a C grade is different depending on the graduate school policy. Generally, a C grade is equivalent of an undergraduate F. It is polite way of saying that you are not ready to do graduate work. If you will need to maintain a B average, a C may get you kick out of the program.
What happens if I wash out of indoc? Washout means you are no longer in the course, to warrant this you need to fail two consecutive progress checks, quit, or be medically eliminated. For all of these options you will have an interview with the Commandant of the schoolhouse.
9 weekThe United States Air Force Pararescue Indoctrination Course was a 9 week long mandatory selection course that United States Air Force airmen must pass in order to attend the USAF Pararescue training course.
Just earning the title of what the Air Force affectionately calls a “PJ” is a grueling task. Dubbed “Superman School,” Pararescue training takes two years and has a dropout rate of around 80 percent. And PJs put all of this rigorous training to use in their everyday duties, when it matters the most.
Overall, the PJ/CRO training pipeline witnesses a 70-80% attrition rate, with most of this attrition on this course (however CROs, on average, have a 90% pass rate from CRO Selection Phase II to graduation).
Theories of indoctrination are divided between “content” (what is taught), “method” (how it is taught), and “outcome” theories (the results of teaching).[2]
This takes us to ethics. Charging someone with indoctrination suggests that they did something wrong. But is indoctrination wrong? It depends on what indoctrination is.
Having a clearer understanding of indoctrination helps us to evaluate charges made against educators. It also helps us to evaluate why indoctrination is wrong, when it is. As we’ve seen, the answers aren’t straightforward.
Is it Wrong to Believe Without Sufficient Evidence? W.K. Clifford’s “The Ethics of Belief” by Spencer Case
Thanks to Nathan Nobis, Chelsea Haramia, Thomas Metcalf, Felipe Pereira, and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful feedback.
Chris Ranalli is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at VU University Amsterdam. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh. He specializes in epistemology, with interests in philosophy of mind and the intersection of epistemology and ethics. He is currently exploring topics in social and political epistemology.
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The NAASS study has not been repeated, but we do have the annual survey conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI)at UCLA, which includes some relevant data. The HERI survey of college freshmen in 2015, for example, found 81.1 percent of freshmen at all baccalaureate institutions endorsed gay marriage.
If you fail a course, you obviously will earn 0 credits towards that graduation requirement. So, you will need to take an additional class to make-up those failed credits. It may mean you take an additional class load the following semester or summer school.
And if you are failing a required class, you might want to ask yourself if your major is indeed the right one for your skill set. Talking to your college advisor is also a good plan for your situation.
Even if they hand the student a diploma, it can be thought of as provisional. Very few students are going to fail a course that would jeopardize their ability to graduate, and we have a excellent data on who's at risk. Furthermore, the diploma is not irrevocable.
In my school district, you can march in the graduation ceremony even if you are one credit short (either in number or in required courses). You will not have graduated, and will need to return to school (either in the summer, the next fall, or to an alternative l. Continue Reading. It depends.
If you are not going to get a degree (which you won't, if you don't pass a required course), you will not be allowed to walk with the rest of the class. And you shouldn't be allowed. Students parade at commencement to show, symbolically, that they have completed and passed a long list of requirements.
However, if you fail a required course or by failing the course you don’t have the required number of credits, you will not graduate. In my school district, you can march in the graduation ceremony even if you are one credit short (either in number or in required courses).
It is foolish to decide to flunk a course, rather than take a C, just so you can take the course over. Flunking a course in graduate school means you don’t belong in graduate school.
Grad school is a job. When a project is going poorly at work, you're expected to alert people, figure out what the problem is, propose a solution, and assuming your boss signs off on the solution, fix the problem. You'r. Continue Reading.
So, your failing the course does not matter, what matters is the grade that you receive on your last attempt. Because that is the grade that shall go forward (and not the best-of-three). That been said, it is obviously better to have a great grade in the area that you want to do your research in.
Not only that, you would be fired “for cause”, which is the worst possible reason to be fired. While there are limitations on what a company can say about a terminated employee, they are allowed to disclose when an employee was terminated for cause (though, generally, not to reveal or discuss the cause).
Not all graduate schools are the same. The consequences of a C grade is different depending on the graduate school policy. Generally, a C grade is equivalent of an undergraduate F. It is polite way of saying that you are not ready to do graduate work.
Indoctrination is not just the promotion of certain beliefs in our students; it’s an effort to change their beliefs and instill a fear or reluctance to consider conflicting evidence. Indoctrination, Taylor writes, produces students who lack the motivation to pursue knowledge for themselves.
Writing in 2009, the philosophers Eamonn Callan and Dylan Arena noted that indoctrination “as the name for a species of morally objectionable teaching, has no more than rough conceptual boundaries.”. Since then, a number of philosophers of education have attempted to draw those boundaries more sharply and a broad consensus has emerged.
By focusing on its opposite — open-mindedness and intellectual humility — and modeling those intellectual virtues ourselves. If we admit when we’re wrong, discuss our failures, and let students know when we’re unsure about something, we can guard against closed-mindedness in two ways: 1 First, by modeling the kind of humility that we hope students will adopt, we encourage them to aspire to be something other than intellectually arrogant. We show that the best way to approach any academic activity is with an open mind. 2 Second, by knocking ourselves down a peg or two, we discourage students from seeing us as an all-knowing authority, someone to defer to at all times. As the Loyola Marymount philosophy professor Jason Baehr writes in his guide to teaching the intellectual virtues, “The ‘stronger’ we are, the weaker they can feel, and therefore the more reluctant they can be to take the kinds of intellectual risks or to engage in ways that are crucial to their own intellectual development.” Instead, by admitting in the classroom that we don’t have all the answers, we can help students develop the confidence to admit when they are unsure, and the autonomy to do something about that uncertainty.
They become “closed-minded agents,” either because they’re intellectually arrogant (they downplay the potential that they could ever be wrong) or intellectually servile (they distrust their own intellectual capacities, and therefore defer to and rely on another authority). Clearly, either outcome is bad.
No, the opposite of closed-mindedness is open-mindedness — in which we seek the truth yet recognize that we could be wrong. Emphasizing open-mindedness and intellectual humility can help ensure you won’t indoctrinate students, even on subjects you feel strongly about.
It was well into the 20th century before the word widely took on negative connotations. Today, although we know that indoctrination is bad, the concept is often fuzzily defined.