Current and previous students from Sonoma State University want a teacher to be eliminated from the classroom, not only for what is teaching students in their film classes, but how they are teaching it. They say that it is bad, treat women particularly bad and the screens of violent and sexual movies without any warning. P>
A petition with more than 900 names: Many of them current and ancient students of the teacher, Ajay Gehlawat - - asks Sonoma State to take urgent measures against him. p>
Gehlawat has not publicly commented on the case and would not speak with the interior of ED superior. P>
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Students who want Gehlawat suspended or even fired describes their case and cutting and drying: they recognize the general concept of the academic freedom of the faculty, but it says that it is using it for Damage students in several ways, again and again, and that you should not be allowed to continue doing. on. p>
For the University, which has been dealing with the case of Gehlawat for many months, it is more complex, involving not only academic freedom, anti-discrimination laws and obligations that change with the welfare of Students, but also. Process, diversity, departmental adjustment and union and other topics. p>
Gehlawat teaches interdisciplinary studies, cinema and theater at the School of Liberal Studies of Hutchins of Sonoma State. Many of the students at that school become elementary school teachers. Sonoma State has a separate film program, located at the School of Arts and Humanities, where teaching expectations are possibly different. While Gehlawat is, for many accounts, less than pleasant, Academe has avoided a lot of judging the physical condition of academics for her collegiality, as it makes it compromise academic freedom. If teachers should use content or activation of warnings in their classrooms, when or how, they are still unresolved issues through Academe, even in the state of Sonoma. P>
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This list of problems are not exhaustive. So here is an illustration of what the university is dealing with: in New Delhi in 2012, a group of men assaulted so brutally, sexually and otherwise, a medical student who died a bus that later died of his wounds . The Indian press initially referred to women, Jyoti Singh, as Nirbhaya, which means "intrepid", and Moniker became a cry of war between the Harous Indians of Gender Violence. P>
The BBC issued a documentary film on the incident and its consequences in 2015, but the film was effectively prohibited in India for legal reasons and, also probably, policies: Singh's death led to national indignation And he embarrassed the government. So it is significant that Gehlawat showed the film in her classroom, where she teaches courses about contemporary Hindi cinema, Bollywood and globalization, feminism in the film and more. P> googleg.cmd.push (function () googleg.display ("dfp-ad-article_in_article");); Do you want to announce? Click here
however, some students say that Gehlawat was wrong to demand that they see the documentary, called the daughter of India. Not only, Gehlawat does not warn them or contemplated enough why they were about to see what they did, say these students, the film itself was problematic. P>
"Objectable content, nebulous reasons and perverted views were exactly what students have experienced in Gehlawat classes when they undergo their required content, including their choice to teach this forbidden film, the daughter of the India without context, "reads the pet-directed petition against Gehlawat. To support this argument, students cited an Indian blog publication that Rehasas many of the original arguments to censor the film in India. P>
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