INSTRUCTION vs Mieusis
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INSTRUCTION vs. MAIEUSIS by Paul Henrickson, Ph.D., © 2004 tm. © 2007 This is a letter to both the teacher and the educator. The teacher being one who teaches a process and the educator one who is the midwife for the person. At various levels of sophistication and with different intensities or sharpness of focus those interested in the phenomenon of DIFFERENCE, something being different, are aware, at some point along the way, that there is a range of difference from the shiny yellow buttercup to the exotic orchid. . Wild buttercup c. Greg Allikas <www.orchidworks.com> Perhaps the metaphor is too inept. Le t’ s say, simply, that if anything can be measured the units in the measurement can be arranged along a line or continuum so that one can see, at a glance, that at both ends of this continuum the units have less of the quality or characteristic being measured than the un its in the middle. That is true, that is, if the display takes the form of a normal “bell” curve. It is not doubted that each unit has its particular characteristics, uses, values etc, and have them in considerable variety BUT, for the characteristic being studied the linear arrangement mentioned is the easiest to understand. Add to the linear arrangement the idea of frequency of occurrence and we get what is called a “bell curve” which shows us that at one end of the line there are few un its, in the middle there are many, and at the other end of the line there are also few units. Therefore, if one is interested in the average behavior or characteristic one looks at the numbers of units in the middle. On the other hand if it is the rarer occurrence of a characteristic one seeks one looks to either end of
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