Road Map of the Teaching-Learning Process class (CE 501)

Here is roadmap of the teaching learning class. What you will notice about it is that it has two parts running parallel with each other.

The first map (the yellow section) establishes the pervasive, default teaching-learning process which we find in most learning encounters. That is what some have called the default setting which we are double cultural captives of (Asian as well as British legacies!) In order to transform the default teaching-learning process which inevitably most people will perpetuate, I will be introducing several alternative educational experiences. These are not meant to replace the default teaching-learning process, for that would be throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Instead, I am seeking to widen your repertoire of teaching-learning processes which you can employ in the different settings. Some of them involve the use of computers and the Internet, others will not, but all are attempts at encourage active learning.


The second map (the green section) involves reading, understanding and discussing the literature available which give you labels, concepts, theories, imaginative ideas. I will be requiring you to read sections from the literature, and to discuss them as a class.

These two maps are not intended to be independent of each other. All through the course, I want you to be asking how the literature informs practice/experience, and how the practice/experience confirms or challenges the literature.