Professors are Supposed to Teach - So Why Don't They?
Jodi Hilton for The New York Times
"Using the ‘Beauties of Physics’ to Conquer Science Illiteracy"
The New York Times
By Claudia Dreifus
17July 2007
See below an excerpt from a NYT article on Eric Mazur, the Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard. Mazur believes in one, teaching students, an anomaly in university education; and two, teaching concepts through experience and student intra-action. This he seeks to accomplish within an educational site--the university--where experiential, interactive, and active critical pedagogy is unfortunately, anathema.
Q. Why do you willingly teach an introductory physics course?
A. First, it’s part of my job description. Professors are supposed to teach. The problem is how we teach . . .
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