Re: The survival of settings
Eva Ekeblad (eva.ekeblad who-is-at ped.gu.se)
Wed, 24 Sep 1997 08:44:19 +0200
At 18.42 -0400 97-09-23, Eugene Matusov wrote:
>I taught several classes at UCSC and after each class
>meeting I cleaned "mess" after me by re-arranging chairs back to raws. I
>did it until I noticed that instructors using the same room before my class
>and after were doing the same thing.
Dennis Beach did some ethnographic experimenting by going into (university)
classrooms very early before lessons and rearranging the furniture circle
fashion: some teachers put the furniture back "in order", others didn't. I
don't remember precisely, but this difference may have been one of his
criteria for the two (hhistorically contingent) teacher categories he
uncovered.
Eva