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https://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/files/original/357f2265ba7e54fedd1d4e8f8c427710.pdf
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Medievalism in the Classroom
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This Collection traces the development of academic medievalism in Australia’s universities, and explores the discipline’s complex ideological affiliations. In this Collection you will find items relating to: the medievalist content of educational programmes, such as examples of university unit outlines; the teaching of the medieval through processes of medievalism, such as in demonstrations of medieval cooking or fighting techniques; and references to the medieval in modern educational debates and contexts.
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<a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71688335" target="_self">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71688335</a>
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‘Lecturer says our Universities are still “Mediaeval”’, <em>The Argus</em>, 7 January 1955
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authority, classroom, education, lecturer, lecturing, pedagogy, specialist, teacher, teaching, teaching methods, university, W. A. Townsley.
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This article from <em>The Argus</em> in 1955 quotes Mr W. A. Townsley, a lecturer in Political Science, on the outlook of Australian Universities as ‘still mediaeval’. Criticising lecturing on the reasoning that it turns out ‘poorly educated, highly technical specialists’ instead of critical thinkers, Townsley negatively invokes the medieval period to explain the continued use of lecturing as the principal method of university teaching. This, he suggests, is ‘a hangover from medieval times when only very few people were educated’. Implied in this statement is a sense that the medieval period is ‘backwards’ or reactionary, and that progress requires a move away from medieval ideas about, and methods of, teaching.
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Anon
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TROVE: National Library of Australia, <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71688335" target="_self">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71688335</a>
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<em>The Argus</em>
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7 January 1955, p.8
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Copyright Expired
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authority
classroom
education
lecturer
lecturing
pedagogy
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teacher
teaching
teaching methods
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W. A. Townsley
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https://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/files/original/2e87df06b7abb10230a37acf95985dc6.pdf
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Medievalism in the Classroom
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An account of the resource
This Collection traces the development of academic medievalism in Australia’s universities, and explores the discipline’s complex ideological affiliations. In this Collection you will find items relating to: the medievalist content of educational programmes, such as examples of university unit outlines; the teaching of the medieval through processes of medievalism, such as in demonstrations of medieval cooking or fighting techniques; and references to the medieval in modern educational debates and contexts.
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<p>Newspaper article; PDF</p>
<p><br /> <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32367278" target="_blank">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32367278</a></p>
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The Lecture System
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book, books, Economics, English, History, lecture, lecturing, note-taking, medieval origins, Philosophy printing, professors, reading, Shakespeare, student learning, teaching, teaching methods, University, university origins, university examination, university teaching, class, education
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Weighing in on a wider printed debate about the cost and value of university teaching, the author of this article takes issue with the prevailing focus on lectures as the principal delivery mode for teaching in universities. He associates the development of lecturing with the medieval origins of universities and the need to disseminate knowledge before the invention of print. Following ‘the book age’, however, the author suggests that lectures are redundant and superfluous. Rather than guiding students in their wider learning as intended, he argues, lectures have the opposite effect in that students regarded them as an adequate alternative to reading. In an age where books are accessible and the ability to read almost universal, he recommends that the teaching of subjects such as English, History, Economics and Philosophy should instead be based on independent student reading followed by class discussion. This would also have the effect of allowing professors more time to conduct research instead of preparing lectures. “In the tenacity with which they [universities] still adhere to the propagation of knowledge by lecturesâ€, the author chides, “there is something peculiarly medievalâ€.
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“Diogenes Mactubâ€
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National Library of Australia
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The West Australian
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8 August 1931, p. 4
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The West Australian
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English
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Economics
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Philosophy printing
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Shakespeare
student learning
teaching
teaching methods
university
university examination
university origins
university teaching