(c) my recent post "Mary Burgan's Defense of Lecturing" [Hake (2007)]
on the AERA-L (Politics and Policy in Education) list.
The abstract of my post reads:
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ABSTRACT: Excerpts from Mary Burgan's Change article "In Defense of
Lecturing" suggest that her essay would have been more appropriately
titled "In Defense of the Sage on the Stage," since she extols
lecturing sages rather than lecturers per se. Aside from my own
criticisms that I triple bracket [[[. . . .]]] within the excerpts,
the most incisive criticism of Burgan's lecturing sage, in my
opinion, is that of Russ Hunt, who asks why the lecturing sage
doesn't stop lecturing and simply defer to the sage behind Bound
Optimally Organized Knowledge (BOOK). The use of BOOK rather than
sages lecturing to intellectually passive students was recommended 44
years ago by chemist Frank Lambert, who called this radical departure
from traditional university practice the Gutenberg method because it
recognizes the invention of the printing press.
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