Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
Date of this Version
Fall 1979
Document Type
Article
Abstract
College teaching has traditionally been regarded by a majority of its practitioners as a profession having much in common with the ministry. Those who commit their lives to the front lines of higher education often do so with a dedication which suggests having been called to the task by whatever teleology their disciplines embrace. Teaching in this context becomes a mystical skill which, in its existential unfoldings, loses its artful essence if studied in the objective light of empirical analysis. Those who attempt to study teaching and learning do so at the risk of creating a network of knowledge about the process of education which never reaches beyond the disciplines involved in its establishment.
Comments
Published in the POD Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 3 (Fall 1979)