Thread:What research? (1)

The statement that research has show that student teacher interaction is better for learning is unsubstantiated. What research? The research should be cited.

Furthermore, there is a possibility that it is variable from culture to culture. In many parts of Africa, there is a preferred distance between the two, and this is a reflection of the wider social values.

This is not a matter of teachers wanting to have their oosition recognised and reaffirmed. When I taught in Ghana, coming as I did from a North American value system, students told me they respect teacher more who are formal, reserved and distant, and they can therefore learn better from them,

--Phil Bartle 18:48, 5 June 2009 (UTC)