Martin Rice on fri 30 aug 02
Ivor points out that most likely, people who hold the MFA degree and teach
with it have not had any specific courses on teaching. Just want to point
out that -- in the US at least -- it is virtually impossible to get a job at
any 4-year institution of higher education without a PhD (except in a few
departments, such as art, or let's say studio art, where a masters degree is
the usual degree, but not in something like art history, I would suppose).
The point I want to make is that hardly any one of these tens of thousands
of teachers in higher ed have had a single course devoted to teaching
methodology. Well, other than in a university's college of education, of
course.
This is not to say whether this is good or bad or how these people become
good teachers -- or not -- just to say that the situation that Ivor
describes about the teaching qualifications for MFA programs are no
different than the teaching qualifications for almost any program -- again,
I only know about higher education in the US and that's all I'm writing
about.
Martin
Lagunas de Barú, Costa Rica
http://www.rice-family.org
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