Keith wrote:
>In response to Phillip, yes I believe that good teaching is
>improvisational.
>Especially with those who are trying to implement sociocultural,
>collaborative
>classroom methods; for them to work the students have to have the freedom
>to
>improvise. And collaborative emergence is a common outcome of
>improvising
>classroom groups.
there, i think you have it - that the more open/flexible the top-down
organization of teaching is, then more opportunities for bottom-up
emergence are probable.
a lecturer delivering a lecture to a hall of sixty is less open to
noticing emergence that small group collaborative activities.
phillip
>
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The English noun "identity" comes, ultimately, from the
Latin adverb "identidem", which means "repeatedly."
The Latin has exactly the same rhythm as the English,
buh-BUM-buh-BUM - a simple iamb, repeated; and
"identidem" is, in fact, nothing more than a
reduplication of the word "idem", "the same":
"idem(et)idem". "Same(and) same". The same,
repeated. It is a word that does exactly what
it means.
from "The Elusive Embrace" by Daniel
Mendelsohn.
phillip white
university of colorado at denver
denver, colorado
phillip_white@ceo.cudenver.edu
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