The What and How of Learning
By KP Mohanan and Tara 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 KP Mohanan and Tara 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.
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash
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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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Thinking Like a Chef
By KP Mohanan, Tara Mohanan and Madhav Kaushish
In this episode, we are joined by Suvir Saran. Suvir is a Michelin starred chef for his restaurant Devi in New York. The focus of this episode is on thinking like a chef. However, the podcast goes far beyond that.
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Thinking Like a Chef
By KP Mohanan, Tara Mohanan and Madhav Kaushish
In this episode, we are joined by Suvir Saran. Suvir is a Michelin starred chef for his restaurant Devi in New York. The focus of this episode is on thinking like a chef. However, the podcast goes far beyond that.
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Thinking like a Theoretical Linguist
By KP Mohanan, Tara Mohanan and Madhav Kaushish
This first episode is titled ‘Thinking Like a Theoretical Linguist’. In this episode John Schettman Marko, who interned with ThinQ in summer 2019 and Madhav Kaushish, a ThinQ member, will be interviewing two other members of the ThinQ team, KP. Mohanan (who we refer to as Mo) and Tara Mohanan. They are both professional theoretical linguists and educators.
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Thinking like a Theoretical Linguist
By KP Mohanan, Tara Mohanan and Madhav Kaushish
This first episode is titled ‘Thinking Like a Theoretical Linguist’. In this episode John Schettman Marko, who interned with ThinQ in summer 2019 and Madhav Kaushish, a ThinQ member, will be interviewing two other members of the ThinQ team, KP. Mohanan (who we refer to as Mo) and Tara Mohanan. They are both professional theoretical linguists and educators.
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Aptitude Tests, Talent Tests, and Achievement Tests
By Tara Mohanan
Any educational program must begin with a clear articulation of its desired learning outcomes. This articulation must percolate in spirit throughout the design of the program's admission procedures, syllabus, assessment, and so on.
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Aptitude Tests, Talent Tests, and Achievement Tests
By Tara Mohanan
Any educational program must begin with a clear articulation of its desired learning outcomes. This articulation must percolate in spirit throughout the design of the program's admission procedures, syllabus, assessment, and so on.
education inquiry
Intellectual Independence
By KP Mohanan and Tara Mohanan
This is the second of a series of dialogues between Rafa and his mother Samira. Samira loves troubling Rafa by asking him difficult questions. This dialogue focuses on authority vs intellectual independence.
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Intellectual Independence
By KP Mohanan and Tara Mohanan
This is the second of a series of dialogues between Rafa and his mother Samira. Samira loves troubling Rafa by asking him difficult questions. This dialogue focuses on authority vs intellectual independence.
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