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From: rob@arcsun.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: education
Message-ID: <185@arcsun.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Mar-87 11:21:52 EST
Article-I.D.: arcsun.185
Posted: Fri Mar  6 11:21:52 1987
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References: <213@fornax.uucp> <876@ubc-cs.UUCP> <563@geac.UUCP> <887@ubc-cs.UUCP>
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Organization: Alberta Research Council, Calgary, Ab.
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Summary: Elementary teachers need not know engineering

In article <887@ubc-cs.UUCP>, manis@ubc-cs.UUCP (Vincent Manis) writes:
>    3) Push the universities to develop real teacher-training programs, which
>       emphasise intellectual rigour, and knowledge of the discipline. Under-
>       graduate education programs should be eliminated, requiring instead
>       that entering students already possess a bachelor's degree in arts,
>       sciences, or engineering.

This is fine for secondary teachers, provided the teacher-training program
teaches them enough about education, measurement etc. But what about
elementary teachers? I can't think of any discipline which provides a
sufficiently general program, and a knowledge of doped semiconductors is
not going to help you with a child who cannot distinguish a 'b' from a 'p'.

Rob Aitken
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