Abstract
Administrators deplore mediocre teaching. Students resist allegedly incompetent instructors by passing the word around that "Professor X doesn't know what he or she is doing in the classroom." Parents who pay significant tuition dollars are outraged by cavalier professors who sometimes give the appearance of doing students a favor by appearing in the classroom. In more than a few instances, however, those professors become "unavoidable" because they teach courses required in some major or core. Hence, students cannot duck what they have heard of or experienced as incompetence. And what does it mean? What is bad teaching? Before I describe less than quality teaching it must be said that efforts within departments to make teaching "as documentable as research" are laudable and should be encouraged, but such efforts however well intentioned cannot give teaching excellence the stature of published research for many reasons.
Journal Title
Iowa Journal of Communication
Volume
27
Issue
1
First Page
91
Last Page
95
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Pappas, Edward J.
(1995)
"Teaching and Research: An Ineluctable Tension,"
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 27:
No.
1, Article 13.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol27/iss1/13
Copyright
©1995 Iowa Communication Association
