In Defense of Lecturing
Mary Burgan,
Change,
Feb 15, 2007
Readers know that I am engaged in a conversation with the people who learn from me. This blog is a part of that conversation, as are their writings on their own blogs or in the comments. A part of that conversation occurs in the form of lectures. One may wonder, why don't I step to the background and let people take charge of their own learning. Well, for one thing, they are in charge of their own learning; I do not tell anybody what they must do. And for another thing, it is no part of my theory that those who teach should become wallflowers. Teachers should model and demonstrate. And that includes a good impassioned discourse on the subject of their expertise. This article, which is a defense of the lecture, captures this. "Students benefit from seeing education embodied in a master learner who teaches what she has learned... as models of knowledgeable adults grappling with first principles in order to open their students' understanding."
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