Ania Lian (ania@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au)
Thu, 14 Oct 1999 20:01:55 +1000 (EST)
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 20:01:55 +1000 (EST) From: Ania Lian <ania@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au> Subject: Re: IFETS-DISCUSS Digest - 12 Oct 1999 to 13 Oct 1999
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On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Alan Holzl wrote:
> My experience in
> Australia is that teaching staff are allocated responsibility for
> developing new subjects with absolutely no release time from other
> activities, especially research, which is still king when it come to
> promotion.
Without research and publications, the products of our work are not
subjected to the scrutiny of public reviewing especially in terms of the
intellectual premises on which we seem to be building our tecahing spaces.
As a result, we have plenty of experts around, constructing learning
environments built upon sophisticated vocabulary but, on a closer look,
with, as a fitness fanatic would say, little muscle underneath. The result
is either:
(a) that such projects set the direction which then takes 200 years to
reverse, or
(b) criticism will one day chew up such projects, meanwhile the government
will declare that it spent a billion $$ on education and that's enough for
another 25 years.
This is of course not to say that publication legitimises the projects.
But we can only try where we can.
Ania Lian
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