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Who are our Students — And why does it Matter?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2018
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When designing courses in astronomy - or any other science - there is a tendency to assume that the students whom we are addressing are younger versions of ourselves. As undergraduates we studied astronomy and now we are practicing it: it is natural to assume that the students we teach are destined to go on to become scientists themselves. But while this was a perfectly valid assumption in the past, it is valid no longer; and if we do not adjust our teaching methods accordingly, we do our students a grave disservice.
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- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 162: New Trends in Astronomy Teaching , 1998 , pp. 16 - 19
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- Copyright © 1996
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