Sunday, September 27, 2009

What is teaching ?

Here's something from Autumn Roesch-Marsh, who has clearly got time to reflect since she moved to Stirling Uni:

'The role of the teacher is not to tell others what to do, not to issue edicts, nor to assist in the constitution of prophesies, promises, injunctions and programs. The task of the teacher is not to affirm prevailing general politics of teaching but to question critically the self-evident, disturb the habitual, dissipate the familiar and accepted, making the strange familiar and the familiar strange . . . The classroom is therefore a place of invention rather than reproduction' Wen-Song Hwu 1998 pg 33.

What do you think ?

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