February 2008
1 post
“Teaching … is essentially a transformational activity, which aims to get...”
– Richard F. Elmore, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership.[xi]
December 2007
16 posts
“If active learning is such a good idea, why is it so seldom seen?
Powerful...”
– David A. Garvin, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership, 8.
“Teaching can be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone...”
– John Dewey, How We Think, 35.
“…the most eloquent critiques of the teacher-centered approach date back to...”
– David A Garvin, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership, 4.
“The improvement of teaching and learning in universities is an important matter....”
– Richard F. Elmore, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership, xix.
“The aim of teaching is not only to transmit information, but also to transform...”
– Richard F. Elmore, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership, xvi.
“The ethical dimensions of teaching, David Garvin argues, usually take the form...”
– Richard F. Elmore, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership, xv.
“Good teaching, in the ethical sense, enables students to engage in intellectual...”
– Richard F. Elmore, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership, xv.
“Practitioners of occupations requiring complex strategies of estimation and...”
– Richard F. Elmore, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership, xiv.
“…the acquisition and application of knowledge are fundamentally social...”
– Richard F. Elmore, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership, xiv.
“Discussion teaching, as defined and practiced by the authors, is essentially a...”
– Richard F. Elmore, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership, xiv.
“One insight from the current research is that all learning is contextual in at...”
– Richard F. Elmore, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership, xii.
“Current research on human learning has converged on a few key ideas about the...”
– Richard F. Elmore, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership, xiii.
“The distinction between conventional pedagogy and discussion teaching also...”
– Richard F. Elmore, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership, xiii.
“David Cohen sums up conventional pedagogy as follows: ‘Teaching is...”
– Richard F. Elmore, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership, xii.
“We have knowledge, in other words, only as we actively participate in its...”
– Richard F. Elmore, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership, xii.
“Teaching … is essentially a transformational activity, which aims to get...”
– Richard F. Elmore, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership, xi.