Word: holton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sophomore Jim Campen, playing in the number two position, lost 3 and 2, while Captain Bob Holton was beaten in the number five match, one-up on the twenty-second hole...
...article on "Science for nonscientists: criteria for college programs," Gerald Holton, one of the hard core of teachers of Gen Ed science, reacted against the inducements which the Bruner Committee offered. "In search of manpower, everything becomes equal to everything else." He recommended instead "at least two successive full-year courses, one centered on the physical, the other on the biological sciences, to be preceded by sound, testable achievement in high school." The first was to be "a specially developed, hard-hitting, substance-centered physical science course combined with mathematics, one which uses the major formative cases in the development...
...Holton's is one of the alternatives now facing the Doty Committee. There are other possibilities...
There is an obvious reason why the Gen Ed courses have moved toward the departmental, one which the Bruner Committee and Holton observed: there is no Department of General Education, and teachers looking to ascend within their departments or professional careers find more rewarding, and easier to teach, courses with departmental content...
Given students who know little about an area of science, one solution--the Redbook's, Holton's, and one allowed by the Bruner Committee--is to select topics as representative and explore them in depth. The difficulty here is that without his teachers' breadth of knowledge, the student cannot know for himself whether and in what way the selected topics are exemplary. The selection must appear arbitrary because the student has no knowledge of the field from which it is made. Moreover, Gen Ed science courses which study selected topics in depth in order to induce useful generalizations about science...