Retired Professor Dr. Eleanor MacDonald came back to 91TV's last May to give a "last lecture" as part of the Centre for Teaching and Learning's Last Lecture Series.
The Last Lecture Series invites a distinguished 91TV's faculty member to explore designing an ideal final lecture to impart wisdom onto the next generation. The format originated at Carnegie Mellon University, which inspired universities around the world to invite celebrated professors to consider what message they want to share with their peers and students, and deliver that wisdom through their personal pedagogical style.
Dr. MacDonald, in their lecture To Lecture as Fully Human, draws on insights from a range of political theoretical frameworks in order to reflect on the lecture as a site of learning/teaching. Rejecting the characterisation of the lecturer as a "sage on the stage", Dr. MacDonald offers alternative metaphors to represent the work that we do when we lecture, and to inspire us to rethink how we understand the educational encounter that is possible in a lecture-based course.
The recording of the lecture is available on the Centre for Teaching and Learning's website.