tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8647966782809031279.post8738884436911032051..comments2024-03-07T20:05:33.349+00:00Comments on Urban policy and practice: Reflections on teaching practiceDr Peter Matthewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06308785385644187726noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8647966782809031279.post-32188061621510215762012-02-10T12:40:40.899+00:002012-02-10T12:40:40.899+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8647966782809031279.post-54923960290783917492012-01-19T15:05:27.613+00:002012-01-19T15:05:27.613+00:00Ian - very good points indeed. It's something ...Ian - very good points indeed. It's something I cover in my second assignment for this course which I will also blog as soon as I get my result back! I found this issue of Social Anthropology very enlightening: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/soca.2010.18.issue-1/issuetoc<br /><br />Simon - agreed - why I'm glad I'm doing the course!Dr Peter Matthewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06308785385644187726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8647966782809031279.post-78877343588178545792012-01-19T12:01:04.480+00:002012-01-19T12:01:04.480+00:00Great blog post (as ever).
On the details I woul...Great blog post (as ever). <br /><br />On the details I would argue that many of those writing within the Foucauldian paradigm would not see it as inherently nihilistic but I can understand your broader position on this. <br /><br />More generally I think there is an important question which remains unanswered: what is the purpose of HEI's? <br /><br />You make the point that there is a risk that the medium becomes the message. With more commercialisation of HE and of society in general I think there is likely to be a growing interest in, what I have heard described as, 'edu-tainment'. <br /><br />Does this move us away from the traditional role of HE - the creation of knowledge? And does it matter?Ian C Elliotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09309184543601375119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8647966782809031279.post-30337623709671464552012-01-19T11:49:57.387+00:002012-01-19T11:49:57.387+00:00Slightly off the topic of what you're addressi...Slightly off the topic of what you're addressing, but... I'm just glad to see a university requiring its lecturers to study teaching at some level.<br />One of the criticisms of the UK university system that I had as an undergraduate was the number of lecturers I had who clearly wanted to teach, but were simply very bad at it... (those who see the teaching as a nuisance, a distraction that they just have to get through, are another matter!)<br />This was over a decade ago, of course, so maybe things have changed.Simonhttp://swaldman.dreamwidth.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8647966782809031279.post-51570208851332485052012-01-19T11:09:13.301+00:002012-01-19T11:09:13.301+00:00And here is the comments from the instructor:
A re...And here is the comments from the instructor:<br />A really thoughtful and engaging reflection – the one thing I wonder is if shifting your perspective from the performance of individual lectures to the curriculum as a whole would give you a way of reconceptualising the process of student learning - focusing on the student journey through the curriculum – the role of assessment, etc. If you think about your own learning on the PGCAP it is facilitated by the process of being signed up to the PGCAP, but has only a limited amount to do with the lectures and ‘what the teacher does’, and much more to do with the activities and reflections that you have engaged in.Dr Peter Matthewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06308785385644187726noreply@blogger.com