{"id":436,"date":"2015-06-16T12:17:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T19:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/?post_type=staff&#038;p=436"},"modified":"2025-03-26T10:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T17:05:00","slug":"david-spataro","status":"publish","type":"staff","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/staff\/david-spataro\/","title":{"rendered":"David Spataro, Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is David Spataro and I am an instructor in Political Science at Bellevue College. I have a Ph.D. from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where I focused on contemporary urban social movements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Teaching Philosophy: <\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>I am an anti-authoritarian and a political organizer, and I try to create a classroom space that fosters political engagement. I bring the perspective that we must sincerely question everything, especially our knowledge of politics that comes across as natural or inevitable. In my classroom I introduce students to uncommon ideas and thinkers, and to perspectives that are not always readily available in everyday life. My priorities are simple: that students learn deeply in a cooperative and nurturing environment, and that I discourage the kind of learning that is a superficial and instrumental striving for a grade while out-competing one\u2019s peers.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Recent Courses Taught at BC:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction to Political Science<\/li>\n<li>Introduction to Globalization<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":557,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-436","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/staff"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2206,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/436\/revisions\/2206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}