Comments on: Together We Learn (Part II) http://www.drmadelinedaniels.com/2007/01/21/together-we-learn/ Psychologist CA PSY #16927, 530-873-4543 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:15:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dr. Madeline Daniels » Together We Learn (Part I) http://www.drmadelinedaniels.com/2007/01/21/together-we-learn/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Dr. Madeline Daniels » Together We Learn (Part I) Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:10:49 +0000 http://www.drmadelinedaniels.com/?p=16#comment-22 [...] Together We Learn (Part II) Bookmark to: Posted by Dr. Daniels on Nov 05 2006 under Uncategorized, Education [...] [...] Together We Learn (Part II) Bookmark to: Posted by Dr. Daniels on Nov 05 2006 under Uncategorized, Education [...]

]]> By: Dr. Daniels http://www.drmadelinedaniels.com/2007/01/21/together-we-learn/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Dr. Daniels Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:57:12 +0000 http://www.drmadelinedaniels.com/?p=16#comment-21 Well Roy, thank you for the encouragement! Some of our readers may not recognize your name so forgive me if I introduce you. Since I recommend your books highly, it's the least I can do. How many books are you up to now? 19? I don't know how you found the time, in between teaching at Bates, Antioch and Ohio University, helping to found Union Graduate School and repairing fallen roofs at your place in Maine! That doesn't really cover everything you've done but I did want to respond to your comment. My latest favorite word is the one you popularized in the last decade, "Re-firement." I'm working on some essays on my own observations based on my work in nursing homes, and really feel that enthusiasm and fire may be what is sorely lacking in many older people. You set me a good example of doing what you love and loving what you do, and I'm very grateful! Seems like working 20 years at something one hates and then retiring to nothing is the worst illness people can inflict on themselves. If you get a chance to come back and read my thoughts on getting older, I'd love to hear your comments. You may be still young, but I'm feeling the years every now and then! Especially since that truck hit me! My bones just aren't as young as they used to be. Well Roy, thank you for the encouragement! Some of our readers may not recognize your name so forgive me if I introduce you. Since I recommend your books highly, it’s the least I can do. How many books are you up to now? 19? I don’t know how you found the time, in between teaching at Bates, Antioch and Ohio University, helping to found Union Graduate School and repairing fallen roofs at your place in Maine! That doesn’t really cover everything you’ve done but I did want to respond to your comment.

My latest favorite word is the one you popularized in the last decade, “Re-firement.” I’m working on some essays on my own observations based on my work in nursing homes, and really feel that enthusiasm and fire may be what is sorely lacking in many older people. You set me a good example of doing what you love and loving what you do, and I’m very grateful! Seems like working 20 years at something one hates and then retiring to nothing is the worst illness people can inflict on themselves.

If you get a chance to come back and read my thoughts on getting older, I’d love to hear your comments. You may be still young, but I’m feeling the years every now and then! Especially since that truck hit me! My bones just aren’t as young as they used to be.

]]> By: Roy Fairfield http://www.drmadelinedaniels.com/2007/01/21/together-we-learn/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Roy Fairfield Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:38:39 +0000 http://www.drmadelinedaniels.com/?p=16#comment-20 Dear Dr. Daniels, Thanx for clearly defining "facilitator;" actually "teachers" hae facilitated learning for centuries. Today some programs encourage facilitation; yet, people like John Dewey (whose focus was "learning by doing" [tho a disciple at Columbia U invented that term]spent a lifetime facilitating and writing about the process. And tend to doubt that the lecture is a modern invention; after all in the medieval period the lecture was very common; Versalius, onne of the early profs of medics complained about the failure of his colleagues to use labs to learn about anatomy, argued that his colleagues "kept their hands clean and learned nothing." Dear Dr. Daniels, Thanx for clearly defining “facilitator;” actually “teachers” hae facilitated learning for centuries. Today some programs encourage facilitation; yet, people like John Dewey (whose focus was “learning by doing” [tho a disciple at Columbia U invented that term]spent a lifetime facilitating and writing about the process. And tend to doubt that the lecture is a modern invention; after all in the medieval period the lecture was very common; Versalius, onne of the early profs of medics complained about the failure of his colleagues to use labs to learn about anatomy, argued that his colleagues “kept their hands clean and learned nothing.”

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