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Case Method
作者:
Zhou Zhen Cheng
来源:《速读
·
下旬》
2018
年第
06
期
Abstract
:
The case method was invented by Christopher Columbus Langdell
,
Dean of Harvard
Law School from 1870 to 1895.First application of case method is that be used in legal education.The
president of Harvard University
,
Charles W.Eliot
,
supported Langdell and his case method.This
backing allowed Langdell to withstand the criticism long enough to prove the case method’s
success.Then Harvard Business School case method grew out of the Langdell’s method.“In 1908s
,
it
put discussions about real cases in the center of their educational activities which led to a
comprehensive collection of cases.Since 1970 it has been implemented in subjects of social sciences
in all types of schools.”Nowadays
,
the case method is now used successfully in disciplines such as
engineering
,
chemistry
,
education
,
and journalism.Students can work through a case during class
as a whole or in small groups.
Key words
:
Case Method
;
Concept
;
Feature
1 Overview of Case Method
1.1 Main Concept of Case Method
Wikipedia has defined that the case method is a teaching approach that uses decision-forcing
cases to put students in the role of people who were faced with difficult decisions at some point in the
past
;②
The case method belongs to a complex teaching method
,
which is based on a problem
structure or a structure of recognizing a problem
;③
“The case method combines two elements
:
the
case itself and the discussion of that case.A teaching case is a rich narrative in which individuals or
groups must make a decision or solve a problem.A teaching case is not a“case study”of the type used
in academic research.Teaching cases provide information
,
but neither analysis nor conclusions.”The
case was provided first for the students as the educational materials
,
then students use the case do the
analysis
,
decision discussion in classroom.The case which would be selected with educational
purpose and come from the real word.
1.2 Main Features of Case Method
1.2.1 Problem-based
Case method starts with a problem
,
and the problem must come from the real word.In different
educational settings
,
different real word problem can be used in the process.We can generally speak
that the case method based on the problem
,
and this kind of problem with large and complicative
meanings as to be analyzed by students to put forward their discussion.
1.2.2 Students’discussion happened widely in class