This link has been bookmarked by 21 people . It was first bookmarked on 13 Jan 2009, by George Roberts.
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16 Feb 11
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With grades students learn to guess the professor's mind and to obey. It is a very sophisticated machinery, whereby the natural desire to learn, the intrinsic motivation to want to learn something because you are interested in the thing itself, is destroyed.
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The only way to develop independent thinking in the classroom is to give freedom, to break the power relationship by removing the instrument of power.
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ollowing their own curiosities, their own self-directed research.
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find their own intrinsic motivation within the subject itself,
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The big distinction we have to make is between learning skills
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and education
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that grading is a tool of coercion in order to make obedient people
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22 Sep 09
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08 Apr 09
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20 Mar 09
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08 Mar 09
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There is nothing in my job description, or in the documents that define what the university is about, that says that we have a responsibility to rank students for employers. In fact, all of the documents say the opposite; that it's about education, that it's about learning, that it's about development. If you decide that it's about education, then you have to optimize education, and grading doesn't do that. Certification and ranking of students can be handled by employers. They can interview students, they can have entrance tests, that's not my concern. Education is my job and I have a professional responsibility to educate. I'm not going to compromise education because some employer on the outside wants me to rank students for them.
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There is nothing in my job description, or in the documents that define what the university is about, that says that we have a responsibility to rank students for employers. In fact, all of the documents say the opposite; that it's about education, that it's about learning, that it's about development. If you decide that it's about education, then you have to optimize education, and grading doesn't do that. Certification and ranking of students can be handled by employers. They can interview students, they can have entrance tests, that's not my concern. Education is my job and I have a professional responsibility to educate. I'm not going to compromise education because some employer on the outside wants me to rank students for them.
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13 Feb 09
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10 Feb 09
E Kissling«Critical pedagogy, for Rancourt, is all about democratizing the classroom. Students are given input over the curriculum, they are encouraged to take classroom discussion wherever it may lead, and there are no grades. Rancourt's preference is a pass/fail
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31 Jan 09
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23 Jan 09
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With grades students learn to guess the professor's mind and to obey.
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The only way to develop independent thinking in the classroom is to give freedom, to break the power relationship by removing the instrument of power
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Academic freedom is the ideal under which professors and students are autonomous and design their own development and interactions
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16 Jan 09
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14 Jan 09
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With grades students learn to guess the professor's mind and to obey.
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The only way to develop independent thinking in the classroom is to give freedom, to break the power relationship by removing the instrument of power
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Academic freedom is the ideal under which professors and students are autonomous and design their own development and interactions
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Mathieu PlourdeIt was to some extent humiliating for students to realize that they had bought into a system which doesn't work. In which they can be convinced that they've learned something even though they haven't understood it. It was a bit of a shock to them, but that shock is essential. You have to be willing to accept that you don't really understand something if you're going to be a researcher who makes great discoveries of how nature functions and so on.
pedagogy AcademicFreedom faculty law grading university Ottawa UD-WFI HigherEd
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13 Jan 09
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