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A pedagogy of anachronism: learning through a misfit between theory and practice

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This paper presents a pedagogy of anachronism where learning occurs through a misfit between theory and practice. It was developed and tested in a class taught from 2016 to 2019, where students repeated Kevin Lynch’s original 1960 experiment on cognitive mapping in a location much smaller in scale and with a very different social composition from the cities that Lynch analyzed. The deliberate misfit transformed a method designed to understand user perception into the very problem itself, provoking students to ask important epistemological questions and recognize the situatedness of theory. A pedagogy of anachronism resists the uncritical instrumentalization of canonical ideas and trains students to think deeply about the normative and epistemological basis of design/planning practice. The paper ends by suggesting different types of misfits that can extend this pedagogy for other learning objectives.

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  • Kah-Wee Lee, 2023. "A pedagogy of anachronism: learning through a misfit between theory and practice," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(5-6), pages 740-758, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:5-6:p:740-758
    DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2272077
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