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In his POD post of 29 Sep 2004 titled "Student resistance to changes
in professional education practice," physicist Mano Singham (2004)
wrote:
"I have been approached by faculty and administrators in the Law and
Dental schools at my university who say that while they are trying to
improve the way they teach by including more active and participatory
methods, they meet resistance from students who ask them to "just
tell them what they need to know" and to forget about all this
"higher-order thinking stuff."...
may know about causes of student resistance to change,...
David Garvin (2003), in his fascinating article "Making the Case," wrote:
Christopher Columbus Langdell, the pioneer of the case method,
attended Harvard Law School from 1851 to 1854 - twice the usual term
of study. ...
In his course on contracts, he insisted that students read only
original sources-cases-and draw their own conclusions. To assist
them, he assembled a set of cases and published them, with only a
brief two-page introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. .
Inducing general principles from a small selection of cases was a
challenging task, and students were unlikely to succeed without help.
Langdell's innovations initially met with enormous resistance. MANY
STUDENTS WERE OUTRAGED (my CAPS).