In defense of lecturing.

From: Change | Date: November 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

In the past dozen years or so, pedagogical reformers in higher education have registered their sense of the faculty's teacherly flaws by proclaiming that the effective teacher should be "a guide by the side" rather than "a sage on the stage." Many practicing faculty members find this jingle insulting; it embeds an implication that they are self-enchanted blowhards who don't understand that teaching involves more than shoveling information and interpretation into their students' heads. By the same token, these faculty colleagues may be insulted by the assumption, prevalent in some ...

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