[Phys-l] Mary Burgan's Defense of Lecturing

[Richard Hake <rrhake@earthlink.net>]

Physics educators may or may not be interested in:

(a) Mary Burgan's (2006) Change article "In Defense of Lecturing," 

(b) the over 30-post POD discussion-list commentary on Burgan's 
article at <http://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0702&L=pod#2>, or

(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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To access the entire post simply click on <http://tinyurl.com/36rkjt>.

Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
<rrhake@earthlink.net>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake>
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REFERENCES
Burgan, M. 2006. "In Defense of Lecturing," Change Magazine, 
November/December; online at
<http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/change/sub.asp?key=98&subkey=2105>.

Hake, R.R. 2007.  "Mary Burgan's Defense of Lecturing," AERA-L post 
of 16 Feb 2007 22:05:16-0800; online at <http://tinyurl.com/36rkjt>.