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Some musings on teaching & learning

In reaction to my ongoing since-stroke voice issues, with a recent acute set-back, I’ve been reflecting on effective “pedagogies” (in reference to adult learning, I suppose that’d be “adultusogogies”), most particularly with regard to lecture as a means of teaching/learning. I have a real love/hate relationship with lecture. On the one hand, I quite detest …

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JH Clarke, Catarrh, Colds, and Grippe; section on “Grippe”

JH Clarke Catarrh, Colds, and Grippe (1899) Grippe or influenza Grippe or influenza – Treatment This is the section of Clarke’s text dealing with “Grippe,” or Influenza. Note the publication date of 1899; this is likely principally in reference to the “Russian ‘flu” pandemic that shortly preceded its publication, which in contemporary retrospective analysis most …

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