"I Think That Sometimes Reading Is Overrated": Tactical, Strategic, and Epistemological Reflections on Planning Education. (December 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sturzaker, John
• Is Part Of: Journal of planning education and research. Volume 34:Number 4(2014:Winter)
• Page Start: 465
• Page End: 471
• Publication Date: 2014-12
• Subjects: planning pedagogy -- epistemology -- independent learning -- deep learning; Regional planning -- Study and teaching -- United States -- Periodicals; City planning -- Study and teaching -- United States -- Periodicals; 307.12
• DOI: 10.1177/0739456X14545996
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0739-456X

Abstract

This article uses the analogy of tactical and strategic planning to suggest methods for increasing the amount of reading done by planning students, inspired by data revealing disappointingly low levels of reading among students at one institution. The article also advocates reflection on teaching and learning practices at an epistemological level, questioning whether the teaching practices of planning scholars have completed the transition to a constructivist epistemology implied by much of the research within the discipline.