>I don't really care if, two years after finishing my > course in Scottish history, a student can't recall the date of the > Covenant. When checking facts is so easy, why would retaining facts > be thought a valuable goal? What I want is for students to learn > some things about how historians tackle primary and secondary > sources, come up with interpretive patterns, test them in > discussion. that was my first London Head of Department's view, thank goodness! It really was liberating for me as a new lecturer, as well as for the students. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html