Re: Self-organized Learning LO325

Mariann Jelinek (mxjeli@facstaff.wm.edu)
Sat, 4 Mar 1995 08:57:09 -0500

Mike McMaster replied LO302:

>Home run! When we get that its all manipulation, we can be free to invent
>something that takes off from the Boulding model presented.
>
>That is, if the last step of his model is
>
>> -> integrative - where you and I do something together because of what we
>> both want to accomplish
>
>Then I'd be satisfied to reach it. But I'd be delighted if we got to
>
> -> generative - where you and I do something together because it will
>accomplish something that neither of us thought of before we got together.
>

Yep, and that sounds like learning to me! That's what I hope for in
a GOOD classroom discussion: magic in mid-air, the outcome of shared ideas
and forthright engagement, when both prof & students learn together!

Sam
MXJELI@MAIL.WM.EDU
Mariann Jelinek
Richard C. Kraemer Professor of Business
Graduate School of Business,
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23185

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