[Oe List ...] popping the question

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What a nice gift, Marge! Thank you! (from one who cannot browse  
through these treasures myself!)

On Sep 9, 2010, at 8:23 AM, Marge Philbrook wrote:

> This is about having fun with the archives --
> I found a wonderful article called Popping the Question - written by
> Robert A.M. Crick, lecturer in English in the Education Faculty,
> Middlesex Polytechnic.
> About his expeirence with the "curriculum" of the institutes in the  
> 1970s
> and in particular about - the art form conversation - Now known as  
> ORID
> He talks about "one approach of the Institute of Cultural Affairs, an
> international group of practising teachers who have been creating and
> experimenting with practical models for classroom methods in a wide
> range of schools and colleges." He talks about seating arrangement (a
> hollow square with students on three sides and the teacher on the
> fourth.  This enables eye contact with every other person,  and also
> prevents the teacher from ducking out of his responsibility for
> leading the conversation), structured conversation, decor, sequence of
> questions, etc, etc.
>
> This is just one treasure I've found in the archives.
>
> Hope you are thinking about coming to Chicago and getting involved in
> the archives in our Oct-Nov sojourn.
>
> With respect,  Marge Philbrook
>
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