File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1998/postcolonial.9805, message 88


Date: 12 May 1998 16:07:47 -0700
From: "Greg Tropea" <greg_tropea-AT-macgate.csuchico.edu>
Subject: RE: Gramsci and lectures 


Dear Student,

Let's be careful not to put more of a load on Mr. Gramsci than he can bear.  
To his/your points: 
- Sometimes a great story brings great benefit; I have attended more than a 
few lectures that cleared this bar or came close enough that I left a changed 
person.  Different modes of discourse do different work.
- I can't recall a single instance of professor's presenting a problem as 
counting in and for itself.  The antecedents and the intentions may not have 
been made explicit in cases you have experienced, but in my experience, all 
academic discourse lends itself to deconstruction, and if it does, then it is 
categorically relational.

That being said, I can also remember many lectures that would have been much 
more effective if the key points had been summarized on the back of a 
matchbook.  I sincerely hope in my work that I have not delivered too many of 
these, but nobody hits a home run every time at bat.  And I'd bet that the 
best results of active, competent involvement in discussion are superior to 
the best results of any other classroom arrangement.

Sincerely,
Another student who also has been teaching the last 20 years
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From: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU on Tue, May 12, 1998 0:08


To all professors on the list

" It is not the lecture that should interest us, but the detailed work of
discussing and investigating problems,.... the problems must not so much
count in and for themselves, as for the way in which they are treated."  A.
Gramsci

Sincerely yours

 a student


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