Shining a light on classroom knowledge production

By Abu Kamara. Every day brilliant lecturers spend hours outside the classroom preparing syllabuses, shifting through endless information to create amazing lecture materials and effective evaluation criteria. However, almost always the products of such intensive intellectual labour, whether in the form of lecture notes or tests and quizzes, are offered by lecturers to students as immaculate ideas that have been scrubbed clean of all signs of the hard work that went into their preparation. Read more...