Word: sections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the summer and after long discussion, a manual for teachers has been prepared to aid the section men in generating and directing discussion. During the semester the manual will be expanded and revised as our experience in section confirms some ideas and disproves others...
Basically, the manual is a catalogue of techniques which can be used to start discussion, keep it coherent, and guide it to fruitful conclusion. At the same time, it points to sources of section-man domination, reviews the basic concepts of the course, and describes the attitudes the section man must deal with in himself and others...
...Section Man's Seminar
Every Friday, for two hours, the section man will meet with Professor Cottle to discuss the class in terms of substance, administration, and teaching. These meetings will help section men bring all the resources of the group to bear upon intellectual or teaching problems as they arise. Such problems will be discussed and evaluated, and the combined experience of the group should go far in aiding the solution of problems, in revising techniques which were used, and heightening the sensitivity of the section men to their causes...
...pointing to the unspoken and unconscious assumptions of such a situation. When one point of view dominates, those who do not hold it become disinterested and silent. If the course is to be meaningful, then all points of view must be expressed. Therefore, when such a situation arises, the section man must take positive action to break...