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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:13:00 CST
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- From: Eric Crump <C509379@MIZZOU1.BITNET>
- Subject: tootering: just say no
- In-Reply-To: Message of Tue,
- 22 Dec 1992 19:45:00 CST from <peckham@CWIS.UNOMAHA.EDU>
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- On Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:45:00 CST Irvin Peckham said:
- >>
- >Un unh, Eric and Marcy. The tutorial fosters a dependancy on the good
- >ol' teacher--lot of ideological implications there, practical disadvantages
- >as well.
-
- Well, Irv, that depends on the writer and the writing assistant, don't
- it? I'm afraid your assumptions about "the tutorial" may be as over-
- generalized as the sometimes overgeneralized assumptions made about
- students. Tutorials >can< foster dependancy, of course, but in an
- ideal world (I WAS talking fantasy, so you have to grant me a bit of
- utopianism) they only foster dependency on colleagues, which is a
- dependency not many of us are likely to outgrow. I like small group
- work pretty well, too, but one-to-one situations need not include the
- same differences in authority and power that seem to permeate
- traditional teacher-student relationships.
-
- Joe Saling, if you're lurking out there, this is your CUE!
- (Joe may be busy, but he has in the past had some interesting
- things to say on this subject).
-
- --Eric Crump
-