The winds of change are blowing through the groves of academe and the Scorpions mirror change of another kind:
The change is in the form in which we receive, present and approach the material we work with and also how we pass it on and (in the academic world) receive and assess it. During the [...]
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I was born into a world which was book-centred, text-centred and reactive-centred. My job was to assimilate, understand and answer – preferably correctly. Originality was dangerous because it tended to overstep conventions which we could agree to call boundaries. These boundaries were basically static or at best ponderous like a pachyderm in changing. The end [...] To bring the discussion right down to earth. Teachers at school level nowadays are quite used to discussions about: “What do you mean ‘CU next t at 4‘ isn’t a proper sentence.” “All my friends understand it!“. Another common boundary negotiation in my EFL lessons is “Can we mind map it or make key points [...] |
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