Word: teaching
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sound conclusion. What they seem geared to, says Professor Kurt Fischer of the Harvard School of Education, is giving the "answer, as opposed to learning how to make a good argument." Some experts blame the nation's colleges for this, saying they fail in their vaunted claim to teach people to think. But two researchers who have devised a new way to measure reasoning power now believe most college students are not ready for mature critical thinking. Wisdom, the researchers suggest, really does come only with...
...Some claim that we can teach critical thinking to people of any age if we can figure out how to do it," says Karen Strohm Kitchener, 43, assistant professor of education at the University of Denver. "What we are saying is that ((such thinking)) is a developmental process and that mature judgment doesn't develop until the middle or often the late...
...from my life and travel around the world. No deadlines, no set place to live, no roots, and no 9 to 5 office job waiting for the Danish wagon to come around at 11:15. I would hang with mates in Australia, visit Amazons in South America, teach English to Japanese executives, or be a ski bum in Switzerland. Or all of the above...
...told their perplexed parents, "We don't sing the same language. Yours is repression and responsibility; ours is energy and anarchy. Rock music is a code you'll never understand. It takes us higher and deeper than you could ever hope to go. And so you have nothing to teach us. We're tuned in. You butt...
...clerical workers organize it won'teffect something else to do with unions on campus.It won't effect the people who teach about uniontopics," said Kaboolian, who added that althoughthe union program is taught by some Harvardprofessors, it is self-sufficient financially...