TEACHING AND RESEARCH: THE TABLES TURNED
"Imagine, if you can, an academic universe in which the roles of teaching and research have been suddenly and magically reversed.
Faculty members emerge from the library or laboratory and heave a sigh of relief: "Thank goodness I've finished all my research for this year! Now I can get on with my real work!" Rushing back to the classroom, they throw themselves with relish into the job they have trained to do through years of graduate study, the labor for which they are recognized and rewarded by their peers and their institutions: the "real work" of teaching."
Read the rest of this wonderfully, thought provoking article by Helen Sword (h.sword@auckland.ac.nz) in Educational Developments 6.2 (May 2005)
23 Jan 2006
TEACHING AND RESEARCH: THE TABLES TURNED
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