I’ve got the power. Why teaching is actually dependent on you.
May 2, 2019
So I have just sat in on a philosophy lecture that asked ‘what does it mean to teach?’. I know what you are thinking… duh, teaching is when learning occurs. Or, even, only when someone has the intention to bring about learning. However, Fisher and Tallant claim that neither learning nor intention are necessary conditions for …
So you think you’ve been taught…
It often seems that Philosophers are out to confuse you about things that you thought you knew, well here’s another one for you! I rolled out of bed to my 9am this morning and learnt how teaching is judgement dependent…I was as stumped as you are, but read on to see a typical study topic …
Lecture Taster: Does teaching depend on you?
April 9, 2019
By Digital Communications team member Consuela Phalange as part of the lecture taster campaign. consuela.phalange@notnotts.ac.uk Twitter @consuelaphalange000 I just came back from Fisher and Tallant’s latest lecture which offers a new answer to the age-old question ‘What it Means to Teach’. 1) Why Judgement-dependent? Andy Fisher, the lecturer, offers the judgement-dependent account because the traditional …
How should teaching be defined?
April 4, 2019
1. Are your teachers really teaching you? I have just been to a philosophy lecture discussing Fisher and Tallant’s paper ‘What does it mean to teach?’ and it’s definitely made me think twice about what ‘teaching’ really is. I’m sure we have all had a lesson when we didn’t learn a single thing (I know, …