Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case study method, say Harvard professors, forces students to control each day's discussion, allowing them to dictate which aspects of a general case are examined, but also requiring intense preparation for each class. Professors are often referred to as "facilitators" rather than lecturers; they don't lead the discussion so much as moderate...
...teach at the B-School, "You don't have to know the subject. You just have to know the case method," says Ciulla. "One benefit is that professors can teach something they're not experts in. But on the other hand, people come in expecting to be taught by experts...
Students, though, say they are not disturbed by these conditions. Given the structure of the case method, they have come to judge professors by their ability to direct discussion, and not by their lecturing skills...
...School has also helped other Harvard graduate schools to utilize the case study method. B-School professors last year helped Harvard's Medical School make its New Pathways program--a case-based system of instruction initiated as a 24-student experimental project four years ago--the foundation of its curriculum. The School of Public Health and the Kennedy School of Government also use the case method in some of their courses, says Christensen...
While some observers find the case method regimented, and some charge that important groups and topics are commonly neglected, critics are not likely to outnumber proponents anytime soon. For all its faults, the system has maintained decades of popularity with both professors and students at the B-School. Although virtually no other business schools in the country have introduced the same system, the powers that be across the River have decided that it works. The venerable case study method has today become almost as much of an institution as the school itself...