Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keeping with the idea of the class as performance piece, Tatar keeps the lecture lighthearted and breaks up her lesson with intermission playtime. "At 'halftime' we have a trivia challenge-a two or three minute break usually centered on a theme. Once I had the Norman Bates trivia challenge about mothers. It breaks up the tedium...
...Contemplative and soft-spoken, Wei-Ming questions the idea of performing for his students, even when lecturing in the grandeur of Sanders Theatre. Education should come before show...
...small-scale implications of negligible student-teacher relations can prove just as detrimental to the student. Mendelsohn himself admits that the distance between him and his students in his Core course is glaring. "Someone will walk though the Yard and smile at me and I'll have no idea that they are in my class," he recalls...
...orchestrated attempts at fostering a tighter bond have run a force for Tatar and her "Fairytales" class. The first year she taught the course, she invited everyone to turn in their papers at her home where she served milk and cookies. At the time, it seemed like a good idea for a small course, but hundreds of ravenous college students descending on one house is a big burden for any cookie jar. "I guess they were all hungry because the food disappeared," Tatar remembers...
...ironic that with the amazing partnerships that Radcliffe is helping to forge across the nation between men and women of all socioeconomic backgrounds, our campus and our alumni population remain so polarized about the idea of forging a cooperative relationship between Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges. It's time for us to stop examining the currency flow between these two institutions and instead work to achieve the goal of educating women at the joint institution of Harvard-Radcliffe...