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本帖最后由 小灵易碎 于 2010-1-15 00:41 编辑
50"In order to improve the quality of instruction at the college and university level, all faculty should be required to spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach."
名词解释
instruction
1 a : PRECEPT <prevailing cultural instructions> b : a direction calling for compliance : ORDER ― usually used in plural <had instructions not to admit strangers> c plural : an outline or manual of technical procedure : DIRECTIONS d : a code that tells a computer to perform a particular operation
2 : the action, practice, or profession of teaching
require
transitive verb
1 a : to claim or ask for by right and authority b archaic : REQUEST
2 a : to call for as suitable or appropriate <the occasion requires formal dress> b : to demand as necessary or essential : have a compelling need for <all living beings require food>
3 : to impose a compulsion or command on : COMPEL
4 chiefly British : to feel or be obliged ― used with a following infinitive <one does not require to be a specialist ― Elizabeth Bowen>
intransitive verb archaic : ASK
Generally speaking,people would like accept commonsence which is based on their daily life and present understandings, rather than abstract theories.Such a inclination is same to students. What can convince students at large in the course of instruction is real and objective evidence,especially information getting away from purely academic reasearchesand could support what they are taught.The need calls for a requirement to the faculty of having plenty of relative practical example in hand,in order to make what they are instructing effectively and vividly.Where can faculty get such gain?It seems that nothing will be better than getting a profession-relevent job outside the academic world and accumulate experience from practices,ultimately,impart to students.However,considering the various characteristics owed by different subjects and personality of each faculty,it is ill-conceived and unwise to acquire all faculty to spend time on course-relevent job outside existing academic work.Furthermore,whether the idea will finally achieve the goal is still questionable,even may cause a negtive disturb to the functioning of daily teaching.
When it comes to the Economics,which is closely interlated with our everyday life,faculty in relative field can easily find that ocassional working outside the academic researches does do a favor to normal instruction.Gregory Mankiw,who is a typical example that can keep a balance between teaching and official working.Mankiw was appointed as the chairman of the Concil of Economics Advisor from 2003 to 2005.Then he has since resume teaching in Harvard.Currently,he is a visiting fellow of the American Interprise Institution.Owning suchlike experience in both instructing of university and official working,Mankiw has demonstrated publicly he benefits a lot from trying various things,surely what he gets from government job has a positive effect on his instruction at university. But on the contravacy, it is hard to imagine the faculty in the field of aeronautics or archeology could find it very helpful to work outside lab,for such subjects are comparetively divorced from reality and acquire more accurate experimental data from scientific test and field-work.What should be instructed to students is mainly the method to do a research or analyse relative data.
Not only the factor of different subjects,but also personal characteristics ought to be taken into consideration when decide whether faculty should be demanded to work outside.Take John Nash,who is unsociable and eccentric,for example.Even in a broadly-speaking same field of learning with Mankiw,obviously Nash prefer to find his inspire and direction in a sphere of basic academic research.Ignoring the respect to individual traits and make a slapdash requirement blindly means ocuppying present time and energy,even disturbing the normal functioning of instructing.
All roads lead to Rome.In fact,the quality of instruction can also evaluated and promoted by other factors like students' learning activity and open academic environment provided by college and university.Actions should be taken on the basis of original intention,any one-sided decision may lead to a unexpected rusult against initial intention.
In sum,integrating the academic output and practical experience get from course-relevent work outside school is a good way to improve the quality of instruction.But comprehensive factors should be thought of when requiring all faulty to spend time on outside working,including the characteristics of different subjects and faculty's personal situation.In addition,excepting the requirement to faculty,promotion in the aspect of students and school can also upgrade the quality of instruction. |
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