Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discovery approach to science (TIME, Dec. 16, 1966), in which Socratic discussion led by a teacher forces students to hit upon conclusions of their own. Although now widely used in U.S. high school physics, biology and earth-science courses, and heartily endorsed by university-based educational theorists, the method has-perhaps inevitably-come up against the same kind of hostility that faces many another academic reform. In varying degrees, the discovery approach has become a problem for teachers, parents and students alike...
Lighting Up. The most pressing problem involves teachers. Many are reluctant to make the necessary psychological shift from the traditional method of handing out their own or textbook conclusions to students to learn by role. Few colleges prepare teachers for the discovery technique, and systematic retraining of present teachers is rare. Officials at the American Association for the Advancement of Science estimate that about half of the teachers handling the new courses are not using the course materials properly. Since the method also demands a good deal more preparation for each class, success depends upon teacher enthusiasm. "Only...
...surprising that there are no major studies showing just how effective discovery courses have been. Spot checks, however, indicate that students who have mastered the new approach do well on college entrance exams and have little difficulty in their college science courses-even though these rarely employ the discovery method. Such students, contends Dr. Keith Kelson, deputy associate director of the National Science Foundation, "no longer accept flat statements from professors-they have a distinct show-me-and-prove-it attitude...
...says, the Germans trust their government just because it is their government. They uncritically share its passion for order while it gives low priority to civil rights and tirelessly promotes laws to cover every possible emergency. They cannot bring themselves to the heresy of doubting the self-sufficiency of method and apparatus...
...cases this form of treatment has caused complete disappearance of the cancer, with the patient still surviving as many as ten years later (1967); this was the first time that any form of spreading cancer in a child could be destroyed with a high degree of regularity by any method of treatment...