What can clinical teachers learn from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone?
@article{Conn2002WhatCC, title={What can clinical teachers learn from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone?}, author={Jennifer J. Conn}, journal={Medical Education}, year={2002}, volume={36} }
Many clinical teachers acquire a working knowledge of the principles of teaching and learning through observation, by adopting positive and rejecting negative examples of clinical instruction. Well selected vignettes of teaching behaviours taken from contemporary film and literature may provide rich substrate by which to engage clinical teachers in discourse about instructional technique. This paper draws on J K Rowling's novel and its companion film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone…
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