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Article: The discussion teaching method: an interactive strategy in tertiary learning.(Report)
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- September 22, 2007
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My first experience as a University teacher may have started the way I was taught. As a teacher-in-training I was taught via the traditional lecture method. A situation where the lecturer as solo performer communicated knowledge to his students, who merely listened with rapt attention. Between the lecturer and students there was an obvious gulf or barrier. As a student then, it was an ardous task being a silent listener who could not question, argue or share knowledge through debates or conversations.
Having to go that route now as a university teacher, I did not feel too comfortable doing what gave me so much academic pain in the past. I decided to adopt a ...