Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kennedy School teaching method leans heavily on the "case method"--also taught at the Business School. A case is a description of a real management situation, usually from the point of view of one person. The question is "what would you do?"...Most students are generally satisfied with the classes. "I came here to get a good grounding in formal analytic techniques like economics, operations research, statistics...I'm geting that so I'm very happy," says Michael Gravitz, a MPP-JD student...
...case method of instruction seems to please most students. The cases give one a "vicarious experience...a sense of confidence, of having gone through it before," and a methodology, a way of looking at a problem, claims Dan Brinza, a MPP-JD student...
However, Elaine Lubin, also a MPP-JD student, feels differently about the case method. "I didn't feel that I came out of the case method with anything other than knowledge of current American issues," she says. She thinks the case method has little application to real situations. "To the extent that it applies, it's not very profound and most of the time it doesn't apply...I felt like I was in Kindergarden...
CONTRARY to Bok's appraisal of the faculty's honesty, it is not the direction of Hiatt's administration that bothers the faculty, but Hiatt's method of administration. The faculty does not feel it has any definitive say in the direction of the school. What they want--and what the Alumni Council wants for them--is a concrete proposal giving them a vote...
Walking around the Physics lab table to a non-black peer to strike up discourse about an experimental method or to give advice or seek advice about a troublesome theorem...