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Most teachers are probably just as curious about what goes on in other classrooms as they are about what goes on in their own. But generally we do not get much opportunity to observe our...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
An everyday discussion involves an issue and a sense of argument and debate, examination and consideration. Hence we say that something is 'under consideration' or 'open to discussion' and mean that...
| Year published: 1988 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Establishing credibility with a group of students for the first time is transactional and often complex. This article uses a case study of an initial classroom encounter to show how things can go...
| Year published: 2000 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The growing demand for more extensive use of discussion in secondary and higher education reflects something deeper than a desire for trendy informality in education. Probably, the most important...
| Year published: 1974 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Instead of burdening his memory with a mass of facts and figures the student of tomorrow will store these in his computer and will be free to analyse the whole, make useful comparisons and draw...
| Year published: 1974 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Do teachers talk too much? I'm afraid we do. Much too much. From the time we enter the school in the morning till we leave it at night, we hardly stop talking. We only realize how much we talk when...
| Year published: 1974 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Modern education has given little place to the lecture in the high school. Some declare that it has no place in the college or university, its time-honored strongholds. Few textbooks on secondary...
| Year published: 1974 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Usually the major objective of discussion methods is to teach students to think. To achieve this the tutor must achieve a number of subsidiary objectives to get the discussion group going. Discussion...
| Year published: 1974 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In this book we have emphasised again and again the need to help children to develop open minds, to think clearly, critically, objectively, and to reflect upon their conclusions, changing them...
| Year published: 1974 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article