The architecture department is one of the discourse communities I belong to. As it’s my third year I can analyze some of the issues that personally affect me daily at school. One of the issues, that there is always a competitive environment that makes us focus on grades more than learning. We can do our best to get an A but not to actually learn something in architecture for our future. Even the professors treat the students according to there grades, that’s the other issue I will talk about. Professors in my major talk about assignments requirements more than teaching or even talking about what is the meaning of architecture. If you are already superior on your own they cheer you up and encourage you to keep going. While if you are struggling they will not really care or spend time to make you understand what you are missing. I never experienced this in other classes outside the major which makes me curious about what can be the reason behind this attitude. Another issue that architecture needs a lot of practice outside the school to learn computer graphics programs that we have to use. The problem here that besides the school projects we do not have time to learn anything.
NehaKolhe is an Assistant Professor at the Priyadarshini Institute of Architecture and Design Studies. He is discussing the issues on the understanding of architecture student towards the academic coursework and presenting creative techniques to provide the students with high level of knowledge considering the students psychology and changing trends of teaching learning process. He illustrates six teaching methods that may help which are, learning by doing, Incidental learning, learning by reflection, cased based teaching, learning by exploring and learning by arguing. He is also disscussing the importance of visual communication and that it is more easier for the students to remember what they saw more than what they read. It is a very helpful article that can help with the issue I claimed.
Source: “NehaKolhe, Innovative tools and techniques to teach Architecture, International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology, 2017.”
” https://www.ripublication.com/irph/ijert_spl17/ijertv10n1spl_13.pdf“
This sounds great. It seems to be a problem specific to architecture students at CT and beyond. And your audience can be the department or professors who need to understand the needs of the students and they way they are being negatively impacted. And you are going to suggest ways to overcome the problem.
I like the way that you write about your DC because you listed the specific problems in your major and find out the solution to solve it. Also, I think it is true when you pick a major, you may not learn what you suppose to learn instead of just considering higher grades. And then when you get out of college, you still need to spend more time to study what it’s related to you.
I think that this is a good DC to write about and you did a good job listing the problems. I agree that when you chose your major it makes us focus on grades more than learning. When I chose my major I was more focused on getting higher grades then actually learning the materials. I also agree with you when you said that professors talk about assignments requirements more than teaching us the materials.