Stone article

fherrmann who-is-at igc.apc.org
Tue, 30 Apr 1996 11:08:44 -0700 (PDT)

Hi everyone, I wanted to add to Gordon's Wells points about modeling
education on the medical model, that the example of immunization works
to the oppositie effect as I understand it. Immunization being one of the
least interventionist methods of modern medicine and likely one that
is driven by concepts of development and nature. Quite a thought provoking
article that was! Commenting as I read I thought "OK, does one educate
for lo-self esteem! for "facility-style" work methods (What's wrong with
fun? whoopsy that's a bad word; yes the work ethic is back because learning
and teaching must be divorced from art, pleasure, enjoyment self-fulfillment
etc... ); and yes analyses of direct approaches and meta-analyses all
point in the same direction which we can ignore as "Shadows in the Soup"
knowing that assessment must change too." More troubling to me were Phil
Agre's comments about wanting direction and it being withheld. The character
of interactions no doubt...

Francoise
Francoise Herrmann
fherrmann who-is-at igc.org