Re: [school-discuss] Quote From Neil Postman

["Yishay Mor" <yishaym@xxxxxxxxx>]

absolutely. 
Postman's solution is to replace a teacher who has CK but no PCK with one who has both. I wonder who taught him logic. 

The problem is systemic. Its a question of how one gets a licence to teach. University professors are chosen by academic merit, not by teaching talent or training. As for schools, I've been arguing for years that they are not about knowledge, they're about sustaining social order.  
"a system's function is what it does."

On 11/01/07, Doug Holton < doug00@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yishay Mor wrote:
> Sorry, no offence, but I must say this is absurd. Each and every one of
> us can recall an experience of learning a subject from a teacher who
> hated it, didn't grasp it, or both. Its a disaster. For me, that was the
> year I quit physics.

And was that not a physicist who taught that class badly?

There is content knowledge and there is pedagogical knowledge.
http://tpck.pbwiki.com/Pedagogical%20Content%20Knowledge%20(PCK)

College professors usually have zero training in the latter.

The consequences of so much bad college teaching are that most
students in science and engineering drop out or change majors,
and those that do graduate, even at the top schools in the country,
have little conceptual understanding of the subjects, as shown
about 2 minutes into this video, where Harvard and MIT graduates can't
make a bulb light:
http://www.learner.org/vod/vod_window.html?pid=76

The full videos require free registration:
Minds of Our Own:
http://www.learner.org/resources/series26.html
A Private Universe:
http://www.learner.org/resources/series28.html

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