The What and How of Learning
By Tara Mohanan and KP Mohanan
By and large, most discourses on educational reform focus on pedagogies: how teachers teach and learners learn. They implicitly assume that learners need to learn a body of knowledge and the skills of application associated with that knowledge. What kinds of learning outcomes should we focus on beyond knowledge content and application? This question hardly ever gets any attention. ThinQ departs from this tradition by focusing on two strands of learning — inquiry and integration — as valuable learning outcomes of any education.
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The What and How of Learning
By Tara Mohanan and KP Mohanan
By and large, most discourses on educational reform focus on pedagogies: how teachers teach and learners learn. They implicitly assume that learners need to learn a body of knowledge and the skills of application associated with that knowledge. What kinds of learning outcomes should we focus on beyond knowledge content and application? This question hardly ever gets any attention. ThinQ departs from this tradition by focusing on two strands of learning — inquiry and integration — as valuable learning outcomes of any education.
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Exploring Patterns in Language Structure
By Tara Mohanan and KP Mohanan
This book is an exploration of the structure of human language. It uses the scientific mode of inquiry, that of building an integrated and interconnected understanding of the information we gather by observing the world. In working through this book, we hope student readers will learn something about language structure as well as about scientific inquiry.
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Exploring Patterns in Language Structure
By Tara Mohanan and KP Mohanan
This book is an exploration of the structure of human language. It uses the scientific mode of inquiry, that of building an integrated and interconnected understanding of the information we gather by observing the world. In working through this book, we hope student readers will learn something about language structure as well as about scientific inquiry.
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Linguistics Education and Cognitive Liberation
By Tara Mohanan and KP Mohanan
We concluded the article, “Education and Cognitive Liberation”, with a plea to incorporate deep understanding, critical understanding, critical thinking, and independent inquiry as essential instructional goals — the desired learning outcomes — of education. In this article, we focus on critical understanding as a prerequisite to critical thinking, and explore ways to accomplish such understanding in an introductory course in Syntax, as an example of the ‘liberating’ approach to education in linguistics.
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Linguistics Education and Cognitive Liberation
By Tara Mohanan and KP Mohanan
We concluded the article, “Education and Cognitive Liberation”, with a plea to incorporate deep understanding, critical understanding, critical thinking, and independent inquiry as essential instructional goals — the desired learning outcomes — of education. In this article, we focus on critical understanding as a prerequisite to critical thinking, and explore ways to accomplish such understanding in an introductory course in Syntax, as an example of the ‘liberating’ approach to education in linguistics.
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Indoctrination in Linguistics Education
By KP Mohanan
The transmission of a body of knowledge from one generation to the next is an important function of institutionalised education. This function is usually satisfied by pedagogical texts, that is, the spoken and written text of educational instruction, found in classroom lectures and textbooks. This article provides a close scrutiny of the discourse of pedagogical texts in the language sciences.
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Indoctrination in Linguistics Education
By KP Mohanan
The transmission of a body of knowledge from one generation to the next is an important function of institutionalised education. This function is usually satisfied by pedagogical texts, that is, the spoken and written text of educational instruction, found in classroom lectures and textbooks. This article provides a close scrutiny of the discourse of pedagogical texts in the language sciences.
Photo by Mike Hindle on Unsplash
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