Psychology discussion list subscribers may or may not be interested in:
(a) Mary Burgan's (2006) Change article "In Defense of Lecturing,"
(b) the over 30-post POD discussion-list commentary on Burgan's
article at <http://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0702&L=pod#2>, or
(c) my recent post "Mary Burgan's Defense of Lecturing" [Hake (2007)]
on the AERA-L (Politics and Policy in Education) list.
The abstract of my post reads:
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ABSTRACT: Excerpts from Mary Burgan's Change article "In Defense of
Lecturing" suggest that her essay would have been more appropriately
titled "In Defense of the Sage on the Stage," since she extols
lecturing sages rather than lecturers per se. Aside from my own
criticisms that I triple bracket [[[. . . .]]] within the excerpts,
the most incisive criticism of Burgan's lecturing sage, in my
opinion, is that of Russ Hunt, who asks why the lecturing sage
doesn't stop lecturing and simply defer to the sage behind Bound
Optimally Organized Knowledge (BOOK). The use of BOOK rather than
sages lecturing to intellectually passive students was recommended 44
years ago by chemist Frank Lambert, who called this radical departure
from traditional university practice the Gutenberg method because it
recognizes the invention of the printing press.
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To access the entire post simply click on <http://tinyurl.com/36rkjt>.
Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi>
REFERENCES
Burgan, M. 2006. "In Defense of Lecturing," Change Magazine,
November/December; online at
<http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/change/sub.asp?key=98&subkey=2105>.
Hake, R.R. 2007. "Mary Burgan's Defense of Lecturing," AERA-L post
of 16 Feb 2007 22:05:16-0800; online at <http://tinyurl.com/36rkjt>.
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