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Connecting esoteric research to mundane classroom material seems daunting. Yet, it is a myth that diligent scholars cannot be effective teachers, or that students will not be interested in what professors are working on. On the contrary, students will be engaged with professors who share when it is done with élan. Showing the practical application of research in the classroom is a significant way to energize both the students and the curriculum. However, it is a myth that scholars cannot be effective teachers. Students engage with professors' research as long as it is done with élan. The practical application of research in the classroom energizes students and curricula. Over two millennia ago, Socrates chastised Phaedrus. for being bewitched by the new learning technology of the text. The argument over this issue is driven by contradictory evidence. The controversy mirrors the overstated claims of big data enthusiasts and reflects the industrial model 's threat to education. This paper argues that a future integrated scholarly and teaching community must be fostered by universities.
Keywords: research, pedagogy, classroom technology, quantification, assessment, scholarly community, student evaluations, rankings, scientific management, industrial education model
It is a myth that scholars cannot be effective teachers. Students engage with professors' research when it is done with élan. The application of research in the classroom energizes students and curricula. However, the argument over this issue is driven by contradictory evidence. The controversy mirrors the overstated claims of big data enthusiasts and reflects the industrial model's threat to education. Scientific management is not a viable approach, given that the foundational work of Frederick Winslow Taylor has been exposed as at best dubious and at worst, fraudulent. Great teaching has always denied technology any salvific function. While it remains one of the great ironies that Plato recorded Socrates's distrust of the written word as a means of disseminating knowledge, this signal skepticism from the dawn of pedagogy should inform our discourse today. Scholars sharing their research and involving their students directly with these inquiries provide the opportunities for profundity. This paper argues that an integrated scholarly and teaching community must be fostered by universities.
Connecting seemingly esoteric research to mundane classroom material sometimes seems daunting. A recent study by the Brookings Institute argues that it...