Re:I Can’t Answer Standardized Test Questions About My Own P...
by redblacktree on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @10:05AM
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No OP, but I read his thesis that low-level courses should also be putting the "emphasis on analytical thinking about the text," but instead focuses on the "supposed correctness of the analysis"
I don't see that your comment interferes with his thesis at all.
Re:I Can’t Answer Standardized Test Questions About My Own P...
by asleori239k on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @11:05AM
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Yeah I came to say something similar. Good art education (at least with criticism) is really focused on the strength of the arguments and the strength of the expression of those arguments.
Re:I Can’t Answer Standardized Test Questions About My Own P...
by sametmax on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @10:26AM
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It doesn't. I just think I would have liked you as a teacher, and most I met didn't not have your point of view.
Re:I Can’t Answer Standardized Test Questions About My Own P...
by ubermonkey on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @09:31AM
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To be clear: I'm not a teacher. I've been in software for 30 years.
Lots of people my age in the biz don't have CS or MIS degrees. Most of the degrees back then were lagging real-world tech in a huge way, so we mostly taught ourselves. Our degrees are in things like physics, or math, or engineering, or political science, or (like me) literature & creative writing.
Specialization is for insects. ;)
Some elements of analysis are verifiable, like when someone provides meaningful context around lines in Shakespeare, but once you get past very elementary discussions of literature the notion of "right answer" is kind of over.
My primary degree is literature; above dumb-freshman courses, the emphasis is on analytical thinking about the text, and on the rigor of that thinking, not on the supposed correctness of the analysis.
But, of course, this interferes with your thesis, so...