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The reality of group projects is that all too often, one person ends up doing most of the real work. Group projects don't need to be more infantilising, they n
by greenrd 9y ago
The reality of group projects is that all too often, one person ends up doing most of the real work.
Group projects don't need to be more infantilising, they need to be more "shape up or ship out!"
- watwut 9y agoIt is not infantilizing to accept expression of doubt or some kind of negative feeling. People have opinions and feelings and sometimes express them. Getting scared of that and yelling "shape up or ship out" is as immature as stopping the work altogether because of it. Also, in my experience, the people who express such feelings are the ones who tend to be willing to do a lot of work and also the boring work needed to finish the thing. The one person doing all the work in group project imo, is because group projects are quite dumb exercises. It has little to do how real cooperation in just a little competently managed work works and keeps more hardworking people hostage to lazy ones. Regardless of whether it is lazy or hardworking who is more open about his state of mind. It has nothing to do with infantilization - many adults in same situation will slack, because that is how incentives are lined up.