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>I always though how silly it was for teachers to pretend they got the correct answer in a text analysis of a century old author. Some elements of analysis are
by ubermonkey 8y ago
>I always though how silly it was for teachers to pretend they got the correct answer in a text analysis of a century old author.
Some elements of analysis are verifiable, like when someone provides meaningful context around lines in Shakespeare, but once you get past very elementary discussions of literature the notion of "right answer" is kind of over.
My primary degree is literature; above dumb-freshman courses, the emphasis is on analytical thinking about the text, and on the rigor of that thinking, not on the supposed correctness of the analysis.
But, of course, this interferes with your thesis, so...
- redblacktree 8y agoNo OP, but I read his thesis that low-level courses should also be putting the "emphasis on analytical thinking about the text," but instead focuses on the "supposed correctness of the analysis" I don't see that your comment interferes with his thesis at all.
- sametmax 8y agoIt doesn't. I just think I would have liked you as a teacher, and most I met didn't not have your point of view.
- ubermonkey 8y agoTo be clear: I'm not a teacher. I've been in software for 30 years. Lots of people my age in the biz don't have CS or MIS degrees. Most of the degrees back then were lagging real-world tech in a huge way, so we mostly taught ourselves. Our degrees are in things like physics, or math, or engineering, or political science, or (like me) literature & creative writing. Specialization is for insects. ;)
- asleori239k 8y agoYeah I came to say something similar. Good art education (at least with criticism) is really focused on the strength of the arguments and the strength of the expression of those arguments.