Graduate students in the sciences who both teach and conduct research show greater improvement in their research skills than do those who focus exclusively on laboratory work, says a report to be published in the August 19 issue of Science.
Want to Be a Good Researcher? Try Teaching - Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher Education (via world-shaker)
An article that goes against the idea that teaching hinders research. For those of you with access, here is the link to the actual article in Science. It’s in my to-be-read-tonight pile.
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Cupcakes and Robots: "It is our collective responsibility both to ourselves as black people and to the aademic communities in which we...
—bell hooks, “On Being Black at Yale: education as the practice of freedom”, Talking Back: thinking feminist, thinking black
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I have never heard a description of education more beautiful than “education as the practice of freedom”. The…
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