Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think we use whatever set of devices work best to teach," Lodge says, adding "In a management situation, I think that a decision-oriented discussion, like the case method encourages, provides the best learning...
...Belief in the case method won't be altered," Timothy W. Armour, assistant dean of the MBA program, says, adding he doesn't think Bok expected the school to change the case method much...
...specifically approves of the case method as a way of teaching business ethics. Elaborating on his report, Bok says, "I don't think we should have doctrinaire lectures on ethics, I think that problem is best treated by raising problems in the classroom that deal with ethical issues and by using Socratic techniques of teaching...
Business faculty say the case method forces research into the kinds of practical problems their school wants to teach. "The case method is a method of research--Bok's report is somewhat like telling a chemist not to do any work in a laboratory, just to think up ideas," Wickham Skinner, Robinson Professor of Business Administration, says. "The business world is our laboratory...
...psychology, a researcher starting in the field has many volumes on the psychology of women to catch up on. But other fields, Kates says, like her own specialty of literature, involves merely asking new questions and rethinking familiar literature. "Feminist literary criticism is not so much a different method, it's a matter of perspective," Kates, who teaches a comparative literature course on women in fiction, says...