Making the Old New Again, or “Wooden Leg” — Educational Research and Reform as Games People Play
I wrote this for a graduate course in education I’m taking. It didn’t get a very good grade!
“Did my father strike my gentleman for chiding of his fool?” –Goneril in King Lear
Frederick Taylor, that wizard among the kings of industry, said that his method was nothing new; he just thought to measure carefully what others had overlooked: the motions of the workers attending industrial machines. A couple of educationists, Barr and Tagg, acknowledge that the underlying elements of their “new paradigm” of undergraduate education are nothing new (see this site for their “new paradigm”). The reason for this is simple enough, for “the Instruction Paradigm is our theory-in-use, yet the espoused theories of most educators more closely resemble components of the Learning Paradigm.” Which is to say that most teachers say they do one thing while doing another. Because of the limited responsibility that educators take for their part […]
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