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Research Is Teaching, Learning Is Theory

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on March 23, 2008 - 7:41am.
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Instead of seeing "teaching" as the polar opposite of "research," we should be thinking of our classrooms as the place to test out all of the skills necessary to translate research into scholarship. Isaac de Waal says teaching is what makes us distinctively human. Why not consider that complex, interactive act as the theoretical grounding for all communication?