Week 5 - Reading Campbell’s Article
Humans evolved from apes? Females are not motivated by power? All men are aggressive? Well, Campbell’s articles did trigger our thoughts to a whole new level. Reading this as a group did help us in saving a lot of time (50 pages? come on!). Discussions aroused (feminist in the group, interesting), agreed and disagreed with each other, and assumptions were made.
From this group interactions in reading, a few things can be noted. First of all, schematic knowledge did help us a lot in raising questions. We wouldn’t have a clue about the article if we don’t know anything about Darwin’s evolution theory, or humans history, or what is happening to the world right now. Our schematic knowledge tells us that women today wasn’t the same as the time Campbell wrote the paper. There are females CEOs and Prime Ministers now, not to mention females wrestlers. Next, we probe questions from one another. Checking on their progress every 5 minutes help to keep a smooth flow in reading, at the same time help each other along the way should there is any difficulties.
All in all, good read! Hope this can be one of the topic we can all discuss together or debate about.