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发表于 2008-7-23 18:23:42
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issue50 "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"
Why, you may wonder, should college faculty also work outside academia, in professional work related to their academic fields? Because working experience in relevant professions enables college and university faculty to offer practical instruction to students. The speaker says that all faculty should be required to spend time working outside the academic world. From my perspective, I basically agree that it is worthwhile for some college faculty to work outside academia in professional positions related to their field.
Firstly, as a student, I easily attain my attention on the courses when the teacher has fresh insights and advanced thoughts. What's more, faculty who spends time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses can bring the examples that they have experienced to show the principles in textbooks more vivid. So they can easily attain the students' attention and, in this way, they can motivate their students' interests and let their classes go on smoothly.
Secondly, professors who are keeping do the work that related to their academic fields can make more informed career decisions. The professor with experience in variety of fields has a more objective idea and he is better able to offer useful, up-to-date information about the work at hand. We, the students, can benefit from the information. Someone may ask that we have career-planning teachers and why we need the information from the professor that working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses. The answer is that career-planning teachers do not have the ability to provide such specific advice to students.
Thirdly, faculty himself may benefit from other fields. Experience in the field can help a professor have a more clear idea about controversial issues. In other words, it is to say that some fields have a contact with each other. Professor Wang, highly respected and well-known professor at China Academy of Social Science, once point out (and I paraphrase) that many significant professors have ever spent time in various fields and they will enlarge their knowledge at the same time. So we know, to some collage faculty, not only students but also themselves will be benefit from their experience about working outside the academic world in professions relevant.
However, the teachers in some disciplines such as mathematics, history, may find it difficult to combine their teaching with relevant fields. In these fields, teachers have no suitable positions and so they can spend their time in professions fields only. These fields need academic results and so these teachers should not be required to spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses.
To sum up, due to the aforementioned reasons, which sometimes intertwine to form an organic whole and thus become more persuasive than any single of them, we may safely arrive at the conclusion some faculty should be required to spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach and some may not. |
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