Towards the third level way

A mass of little judgements

Third level education requires that a student be comfortable when making a mass of little judgements – editing, sifting, putting some material aside.

This is the overall skill central to the third-level way of doing things.

Steps towards the third-level way.

●  Each student conducts research into their own locality, region and country before adopting an EU country.

●  Their research, application of skills and writing is then directed at that country.

Guided through topics

Students are guided through a range of topics that help them better understand the subjects from the local to the European and global level.

●  An example, a student is researching, say, the Netherlands and is then introduced to the topic of, say, economic geography.

●  The idea is to learn how to marshal all their general material under the demand to address a particular topic.

●  In the case of the example, that would be choosing and crafting from the general material to serve the job at hand: writing on economic geography.

● This is how a student learns to make all those little judgements about the use of their material, how to sift it, what to use, what to put aside.