Curiously, I was having this conversation in Pick & Pay yesterday evening. The meataphor used by Zoey was that their intelligence is like shards of glass, some brilliant individual pieces but with no coherence, so they can be quite impressive until you talk to them for more than 5 minutes. Am getting stuck into marking 1st year essays at the moment, 45 phil-101s by friday, another 25 by monday, then onto the Myth-201s which will hopefully be less distressing. The interesting thing was that Zoey was looking at this specifically from her dept (Media Studies, though she's secretly a Lit person) and saying that interdisciplinary fields are particularly problematic from this perspective. Deep disciplinary study is (we think) better at building that framework, but they seem less and less keen to do that.
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Am getting stuck into marking 1st year essays at the moment, 45 phil-101s by friday, another 25 by monday, then onto the Myth-201s which will hopefully be less distressing.
The interesting thing was that Zoey was looking at this specifically from her dept (Media Studies, though she's secretly a Lit person) and saying that interdisciplinary fields are particularly problematic from this perspective. Deep disciplinary study is (we think) better at building that framework, but they seem less and less keen to do that.
Youth of today....