‘Fear of Looking Stupid’
Anthropologist offers explanation for why faculty members hesitate to adopt innovative teaching methods.
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Anthropologist offers explanation for why faculty members hesitate to adopt innovative teaching methods.
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An anthropologist who had the unenviable task of sitting through academics’ meetings and reading their email chains to find out why they fail to change their teaching styles has come to a surprising conclusion: lecturers are simply too afraid of looking stupid in front of their students to try something new.
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Patrick Madden has taught and conducted research in computer science for nearly 20 years at Binghamton University, State University of New York.