On Teacher's day 2022: 3i and 3c model for teaching in higher education
Having spent fifteen years teaching post-graduate students of public health and health management, I have become a provider of information to all students by helping them to know and do more, a facilitator of learning to most by encouraging them to inquire deeper and wider, and a mentor and fellow-learner for some by igniting our collective insights. This shift in focus from information to insight enabled me to help the students contextualize the content - which heavily focuses on science and systems – in the light of values associated with self and society. I believe this conceptual framework of information-inquires-insights (3i) and Connecting Contents to Contexts (3c) is important for value-based higher education in the information age. A caveat before explaining these in detail: these are results of my teaching-learning interactions with public health and healthcare management students, but may also be relevant for other fraternities. Information; facts about a s...