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David Weiner

As a sociology professor and community organizer for over half a century, my focus has been on power relationships in society.

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Pushing Back — Memoir of a Teacher Activist Epilogue, Part I — Now That We Get It, What Can We Do?

If time and health permit, I hope to add a longer epilogue describing my years teaching at a community college from 1999 to 2022. I can no longer teach full-time because of a health condition, but I still meet with former students who seek...

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Pushing Back — Memoir of a Teacher Activist — Part VIII, Chapter 5: The Future

The Future

Most of my students did not want to think about the future. The health students summed up the prevailing mood: “Because there’s nothing we can do about it anyway.”

“It’s depressing.”

By the time we finished the unit, that outl...

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Pushing Back — Memoir of a Teacher-Activist — Part VIII, Chapter 4: Health Class

Health Class

Health classes at this school were taught mostly by athletic coaches. Regular classroom teachers considered health, as an academic subject, to be a joke. It was not prestigious to teach it unless one was a coach—and coaches ha...

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Pushing Back — Memoir of a Teacher-Activist — Part VIII, Chapter 3: Summer School

Summer School

If my regular school students resisted work that required reasoning, my summer school students didn’t want to do schoolwork at all. They hated everything about school. The only reason they were there was to make up credits. T...

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Pushing Back — Memoir of a Teacher-Activist — Part VIII, Chapter 2: Science vs Belief

Science vs Belief

My first class of freshman physical science students was unlike any I had ever taught. They epitomized a certain American stereotype. With few exceptions, they came from white, middle-class families; they played sports or...

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