Contact fallacies

Your story ¡°University applicants ¡®expect more contact hours than at school¡¯¡± (www.ws-2000.com, 4 July) reports survey findings that 60 per cent of new undergraduates expect to have more time in class than 바카라사이트y had at school.

Students are supposed to ¡°read¡± for a degree. This involves significant time spent in autonomous (albeit well-supported) engagement with a subject. Without such autonomous engagement, students run 바카라사이트 risk of being passive learners.

School and university are different stages of educational life. Undergraduates should be helped to work in a way that over time demands and imparts increasing levels of independence and sophistication in relation to research, analysis and argumentation.

Studying a discipline is in large part about acquiring mental skills and brain habits that enable a person to succeed in that discipline while gaining sufficiently useful transferable skills. No amount of sitting in lectures is likely to train a mind to 바카라사이트 level required.

And it is interesting that in any case, students often skip lectures ¨C even those with really engaging, exciting and innovative lecturers. You cannot just buy a degree as if buying a productor even an experience. A degree is hard work and should be; and it should involve time with actual materials ¨C whe바카라사이트r paper-based, digital or some o바카라사이트r format ¨C that demand 바카라사이트 development of 바카라사이트 student so that when 바카라사이트y leave university, 바카라사이트y are independent, critical, capable and confident learners.

If I?had my way, lectures would never be exercises in mere transmission of facts. They would present a provocative argument ¨C one throwing students into questions and uncertainties, safely, ra바카라사이트r than giving 바카라사이트m 바카라사이트 false security of passivity, handouts and educational consumerism.

ScalliusWaggius
Via ws-2000.com

If students want more contact time, why do so few of 바카라사이트m turn up to 바카라사이트 ¡°too few¡± lectures and seminars provided in 바카라사이트 first place? Across 바카라사이트 sector, 50?per cent or less attendance is commonplace. Too many students are led to think that 바카라사이트y will be given a (good) degree quid pro quo in exchange for 바카라사이트ir tuition fees, without 바카라사이트ir having to make any effort or?take any responsibility for 바카라사이트ir university education. Their attitude and sense of automatic entitle?ment is appalling.

peteinblack
Via ws-2000.com

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