Studying for comps and reviewing EPPL 604: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives in Education.\u00a0 We looked at the perceptions and attitudes of those who work in arts or aesthetics disciplines.\u00a0 Here’s the quote from the first page:<\/p>\n
“Teaching may be compared to selling commodities.\u00a0 No one can sell unless someone buys.\u00a0 We should ridicule a merchant who said that he had sold a great many goods although no one had bought any.\u00a0 But perhaps there are teachers who think they have done a good day’s teaching irrespective of what pupils have learned.”\u00a0 John Dewey<\/p>\n
Seems reasonable until you start to consider more operationalized definitions:\u00a0 what should students learn in the first place?\u00a0 And what’s the best way to determine if they’ve learned it?\u00a0 If there were standard answers to these, graduate school would be a lot shorter and this course would not be necessary.\u00a0 Instead, there are multiple answers to those questions and this course helps provide a window into those various explanations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Studying for comps and reviewing EPPL 604: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives in Education.\u00a0 We looked at the perceptions and attitudes of those who work in arts or aesthetics disciplines.\u00a0 Here’s the quote from the first page: “Teaching may be compared to selling commodities.\u00a0 No one can sell unless someone buys.\u00a0 We should ridicule a merchant who said … Continue reading John Dewey via Louis J. Rubin<\/span>