You can argue that any attempt to "teach" at all is structural MACROaggression. Behavioral microaggression theory: missing forest for trees.
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Self-directed learning, in which the actors formerly known as "teachers" become reactors, is no panacea, but it is an idea at right _level_
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When exit/voice in learning is too coarse-grained (courses, or worse, majors and degrees), big "bundles" will necessarily encode violence
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The bigger a bundle of learning, the more you need a "big" ideology to cohere contents, and holding competing ideologies can cause pain
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Smaller bundles of learning allow the student to trade-off have control over how to trade-off risks to psyche and learning goals.
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Note that students *already* manage risk at high cost today: picking "easy As" or ideologically simpatico majors with E(learning)>E(PTSD)
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This is not cowardice. It is rational optimizing behavior. The cognitive "cost" of studying X depends on your power-relation to X.
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Make the unit size smaller, and the "buggy" thinking that makes students pick easy-A or psyche-coddling courses will turn into a feature
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