Helen,
how great to hear that the CGF links nicely with your teaching...
Iain Hay has a nice editorial about critical pedagogy that is either just
published or about to be published in the journal of geography in higher
education that mirrors some of your comments.
cheers,
lawrence
At 7:19 am -0700 1/5/01, Helen Twidle wrote:
>OK, I feel guilty now about my lack of contributions...
>
>I just had a very disturbing experience with my first year undergraduate
>tutorial group. Whilst we were discussing the importance of place
>(snore...) I brought up the example of protest in 'public' spaces using
>today as an example, and was astounded to find just how many of them were
>of the opinion that protestors are all scuzzy no-hopers who don't think
>through the consequences of their actions who should be stopped by the
>forces that be at all costs. I don't contribute to this list much, but I
>read just about everything which goes up on it and it's links to May Day
>stuff from this list (amongst other stuff) which I used to inform my
>discussions with undergraduates who (hopefully) have a better idea of what
>a democracy should look like normatively.
>
>Just because there may not be a huge amount of discussion, it doesn't mean
>that there isn't more going on linked to it. I'm not trying to suggest that
>my first year tutorials are going to change the world, but we can at least
>turn out undergraduates who have had the chance to think critically, surely?
>
>
>Helen Twidle
>Postgraduate Office
>Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences
>University of Wales
>Aberystwyth
>Ceredigion
>SY23 3DB
>UK
>
>Tel 01970 622610
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