Monday, October 24, 2016
Might be worth writing down
Convective thought. This seems perfectly obvious, but I don't recall reading it anywhere, so maybe it's worth writing down.
Tenure is a proper apprenticeship system, pretty much the only true remnant of old-fashioned apprentice/journeyman/master. It's OJT for new profs.
Nothing wrong with that. Problem is, we're taking the side-effects of this OJT as "science". All other forms of OJT consider the practice work of apprentices to be discardable.
Real development of useful knowledge has always happened OUTSIDE of academe, in business and government. Some of this development is hired out to academics, but the real action remains inside the business or agency. The academic contract is normally a quality control or cross-check.
Labels: Experiential education
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