Perhaps our elaborate efforts to avoid direct instruction come in
part from the fact that it is not a very effective way to
_impose_ learning on people. (Or rather, not if you don't want to
have to break the illusion concealing power relations in our
polite middle-class fashion.)
When I ask somebody a question I want 'direct instruction', not
some perverse game of trying to get me to think for myself -- I
am already thinking for myself, and that is why I asked the
question!
JAY.
PS. After writing this, read Phil Agre's story about his
rebellion against constructivist math lessons. No, Phil, I don't
think things have changed too much. The real lesson is the same
whether in traditional math and science classes or constructivist
ones: "You're stupid!"
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JAY LEMKE.
City University of New York.
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