On 29 Mar 2006, at 11:59, Fiona Duggan wrote:
> For those listmembers who have not already seen Frank Furedi's article
> in the Guardian yesterday the link is below. Do listmembers agree with
> Frank that "universities tend to accommodate rather than challenge the
> culture of cheating"?
>
<<f we genuinely want to do something about plagiarism then we must
acknowledge the true scope of the problem. And the best place to start
is with primary-school children. Teach them that it is only their own
work that we value.>>
can I scream? does he expect them to *rediscover* everything?
no, we need to teach them that their work will get even better marks if
they can tell us where they got their information from... and once they
get to HE we expect them to be able to tell us which of the people they
got the information from appears to have got it right and which ones,
in their opinion, have got it wrong.
I totally agree that there are major issues re. schools but throwing
phrases about valuing "only their own work" about just exacerbates the
problem. What is "their own work" at primary school apart from a body
of knowledge obtained from someone else?
Diane
(who has a project on the industrial revolution to "supervise" this
holiday - my third child in this class, third time at tackling it, so
well aware of the issues!)
Diane Brewster
Research Fellow
IDEAS Lab
Dept Informatics
University of Sussex
Falmer
Brighton BN19QH
http://ideas.fcs.sussex.ac.uk/~D.M.Brewster/
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