other observations about "pedagogy"
in that the emphasis is perhaps too
often on what is being taught rather
than how.
Does it really matter if a student is
exposed to a particular subject if
her critical thinking skills are not
exercised, and if she is not
encouraged to think in new ways?
Ron Bashford
Dear Ron
See: this is what will bring a SNICKER
and should: signaling the interstices,
crossroads & always frontier territory
between bottom-line content maestros
(subject matter savvy-ists) on the one
hand and on the other: pedagoguery
And will cock a brow, roll an eye,
provoke snick if not snort among the
professional professionals--as opposed
to the amateurs.
I say should (send in the snickers, there ought
to be snickers) because the tension generated
between process and product occupying the
same conversational topos is legitimate, and
visceral--unless one dominates the other in which
case the snicker signifies an agony & discrepancy
and should be turned up: Put into play.
Give a man a _____
or
Teach him how to _____
The pattern. The fundamental educational
either/or. Don't matter what subject-object,
content or token topic you put in that algorithm
so as to fill in the blanks, it's the distinction and
the relationship that counts, true?
Not the blank-fillers, yes? Dime a dozen. Galore..
Need we argue? I wish we could, but you are off
to Amherst and round here professionalism-a-um
is the dominant pair of dimes and won't suffer
foolishness lightly. .
xxxooo, Sam
No comments:
Post a Comment