“Are you a reader?”
Should one admit to being a reader? That is the question.
“Are you a reader?”
When I admitted to being a reader, the door opened!
Category: Practice
Passion leads to ruin.
Too many policies are pursed on the basis of exaggeration and overstatement, call that sensationalism.
I keep going on about the dangers of passion.
More on passion versus plod.
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I offered my arguments for plod over passion awhile back. Bleader, if you missed it do not pass Go until you have. It is on 12 August 2008. Click here https://theory-practice.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/2008/08/professionalism_over_passion_a.html
Deep approaches to learning and teaching
A disconnection between teaching and learning does occur. Even the best prepared material does not produce learning.
The attached file is the text of a talk I gave on teaching a time ago. It is based in part of research into learning in higher education, but of course reflects my own experience.
Click on it and have a look.
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Professionalism over passion any day
“Take what I say seriously, because it is a passion.” It will take more than a loud voice to convince me. Arguments and evidence not decibels, please.
Plod makes the world go around, not the boring declaration of passion.
Adeeo
I learned some things through the skin.
That means goodbye.
Shop til you drop!
The poet sandal maker is now, in the second generation, a playwright sandal maker.
Culture good, but so is commerce.
Get me to the church on time! The Athens Metro
“I’d use public transport if the wait was never more than eight minutes.” I used to say this based on experiences in Amsterdam. I have a new standard now: two minutes.
The cry of every commuter.
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