Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
Date of this Version
1984
Document Type
Article
Citation
To Improve the Academy, published by The Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education, volume 3, 1984.
Abstract
Many of the readers of this volume are educational consultants or teachers whose primary interest lies in action. The first thing we want to know is how a method works and what it can do for us. Moreover, most of us are aware that methods are usually developed by trial and error and then justified within a set of assumptions about teaching and about human nature. Yet we often write about our methods of improving teaching as though they were logically derived from basic principles or suggested by a review of the literature. I will resist this tendency by relating the story first and discussing the underlying assumptions in the last few pages.
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