Also reprinted in Discourse Vol. 6 No. 1 (Autumn 2006) 225-236.This article argues that the following seven thoughts are absent from most formal reflections on teaching : 1. We do not teach in an ideological vacuum; 2. We are not here to give students what they want, but rather what we know to be good for them; 3. Every model of learning implies a model of humanity, and may be judged by it; 4. Students do not know what higher education is; 5. Higher education is education in values; 6. Classes are the common rite in the cathedral of reason; 7. The lofty aims intrinsic to higher education are necessary enabling conditions for the utilitarian, economistic aims imposed on it from without. It concludes that we have to pay attention to some rath...
When we teach students, do we always practise what we preach? Do we use what we know about our stude...
In this paper we consider how students are positioned in school classrooms and the effect positionin...
The numerous changes and improvements which have been wrought teacher education courses in the last ...
This article argues that the following seven thoughts are absent from most formal reflections on tea...
The current definition of a good teacher is grounded in sets of pre-determined competencies establis...
Underpinning all education is an implicit image or ideal of what it is to be human. With its emphasi...
What kind of reasons can be given for believing education is valuable? One can regard education as i...
The formation of the person is not a new issue in the history of the development of human resource o...
What kind of reasons can be given for believing education is valuable? One can regard education as i...
What kind of reasons can be given for believing education is valuable? One can regard education as i...
What kind of reasons can be given for believing education is valuable? One can regard education as i...
Over the past twenty years a rather common critique of teaching has emerged in many research publi...
Current and past reforms have attempted to address the challenges of the educational world. There ar...
It is generally accepted that schools should be concerned not just with imparting particular intelle...
Meditating on the potential for inspiring authentic educational practice, this paper conceptualizes ...
When we teach students, do we always practise what we preach? Do we use what we know about our stude...
In this paper we consider how students are positioned in school classrooms and the effect positionin...
The numerous changes and improvements which have been wrought teacher education courses in the last ...
This article argues that the following seven thoughts are absent from most formal reflections on tea...
The current definition of a good teacher is grounded in sets of pre-determined competencies establis...
Underpinning all education is an implicit image or ideal of what it is to be human. With its emphasi...
What kind of reasons can be given for believing education is valuable? One can regard education as i...
The formation of the person is not a new issue in the history of the development of human resource o...
What kind of reasons can be given for believing education is valuable? One can regard education as i...
What kind of reasons can be given for believing education is valuable? One can regard education as i...
What kind of reasons can be given for believing education is valuable? One can regard education as i...
Over the past twenty years a rather common critique of teaching has emerged in many research publi...
Current and past reforms have attempted to address the challenges of the educational world. There ar...
It is generally accepted that schools should be concerned not just with imparting particular intelle...
Meditating on the potential for inspiring authentic educational practice, this paper conceptualizes ...
When we teach students, do we always practise what we preach? Do we use what we know about our stude...
In this paper we consider how students are positioned in school classrooms and the effect positionin...
The numerous changes and improvements which have been wrought teacher education courses in the last ...