Could robots replace your lecturers? What it means to teach!
May 7, 2019
Thursday morning, coffee in hand, I attended a philosophy lecture given by Andrew Fisher, here at the Uni of Nottingham, on teaching and learning. Tired eyes and sore heads from the night before filled the room, also hoping their coffee would help spring them into life…ready to learn! But what is it, exactly, to learn? Carry on …
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 …
Are your teachers teaching you well? You can decide…
TEACHING. It’s a simple word, and after all these years at school you think you know what it is right? Wrong! I’ve just finished an interesting lecture questioning what teaching is, and I’m going to give you a taste of what philosophy at Nottingham is like… 1. What is teaching? You might think if …
What Does Teaching Mean to You?
April 11, 2019
By Digital Communications team member, Immanuelle Kant. I’ve just attended an interesting lecture on Andy Fisher and Jonathan Tallant’s Philosophy of Teaching where we discussed the enduring question: ‘What Does It Mean to Teach?’. I am going to breakdown the main ideas from the lecture to give you a better insight into what a Philosophy lecture …
Teaching: It’s Not What You Think It Is! An insight to Philosophy Lectures at the University of Nottingham
Hey soon to be University of Nottingham philosophy students! Ever wondered what a philosophy lecture at the University of Nottingham might be like? Well we’ve got just the blog post for you! We sat in on a philosophy lecture discussing Fisher and Tallant’s paper ‘What does it mean to teach?’ and we’re here to tell …
Feeling Empowered: A Day In The Life Of A UoN Philosophy Student
April 10, 2019
This morning I went to a 9am Philosophy lecture and I learnt something; a wild phenomenon considering I hadn’t even had my morning coffee! You’d hope that I did learn something, bearing in mind we were learning about teaching in Teaching and Learning (building). We Philosophers do love a meta moment, sorry. We got told …
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 …
What Does it REALLY Mean to Teach?
LISTEN UP! I want to teach you something… This morning I attended an interesting philosophy lecture all about teaching. Andy Fisher and Jonathan Tallant (lecturers at UoN!) have written a fascinating paper which argues that teaching is ‘judgement-dependent’. This means that it’s up to the student to decide if they’re being taught. They say that …
Do we need a new concept of teaching? (UoN Philosophy Taster Lecture)
April 5, 2019
After sitting in a philosophy lecture today, I realised that philosophy makes you question EVERYTHING. Including teaching. Image source We discussed Andy Fisher and Jonathan Tallant’s alternative view of teaching. It was so interesting I decided to write a blog about it! What is teaching? 1. Learning Teaching is when someone learns, right? Not necessarily! …