Marc | May 28, 2010
I just finished attending the IAFIE conference here in Ottawa, and a lot of the discussion was on the subject of “critical thinking”. Based solely on the presentations there, it became rapidly apparent that the problems many of the presenters were having with critical thinking were the exact opposite of the problems my students have [...]
Marc | February 22, 2010
For the past 4 days, I have been involved in a rather intense discussion over at the Small Wars Council on “What is education?”. One of the truly nice things about the discussion is that it immediately started off at a fairly “high” level – i.e. talking about philosophy and effects of differing systems of [...]
Marc | February 9, 2010
The February, 2010 issue of Proceedings (USNI) has a wonderful article in it by MG Robert H. Scales entitled Too Busy to Learn. His basic thesis is that the American military, like its British counterparts during the 19th century, are focused too heavily on the “doing” of professional military practice at the expense of actually [...]
Marc | June 5, 2008
I just finished reading two interesting pieces – one by Sam Lisles called Education Paradigm and the other by Matthew Reisz called Hits and Misses. Both deal with crucial questions about what is “scholarship” and “education”, albeit from quite different angles, and what reciprocal effects exist between society and the education system. Reisz’s piece concentrates [...]
Marc | August 30, 2007
Growing up, I always looked forward to summer as a time to unwind. This summer was different – I’ve been working my tail off on a variety of different projects. Right now, I am getting ready to teach my favorite course again. Technically, it is theory and methodology in Interdisciplinary Studies, but I like to [...]
Marc | December 1, 2006
Over the years, it has been my pleasure and priviledge to teach a number of truly exceptional students. Rarely, however, do I find such a high number of them in one class as I have this past term. Yesterday evening saw the last class of my DIST 3901: Issues In Interdisciplinary Studies course. The course [...]
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