Dee,
Paul (and all),You give me more credit than I deserve. My only awareness of Dewey was his library "Dewey decimal system". However, I think he was about the applications not just the tRATs.Larry--On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Paul Koles <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Michael and colleagues: I like the "shocks us out of sheep-like passivity" part; Larry, did you study John Dewey? PaulOn Jul 9, 2012, at 5:00 PM, Sweet, Michael S wrote:. . . O.K., I don’t think he knew that he was talking about tRATs, but he was:“Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving…conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity.” - John Dewey-MMichael Sweet, Ph.D.Director of Instructional Development, Center for Teaching and LearningThe University of Texas at Austin*******************************Larry K. Michaelsen, Professor of ManagementDockery 400G, University of Central MissouriWarrensburg, MO 64093660/543-4315 voice, 660/543-8465 faxFor info on:Team-Based Learning (TBL) <www.teambasedlearning.org>Integrative Business Experience (IBE) <http://ucmo.edu/IBEl>*******************************