- George Jardine
George Jardine (1742-1827) was a Scottish academic and educator. He was Professor at the
University of Glasgow , of Greek from 1774, and then Professor of Logic and Rhetoric 1787 to 1824. [Comments on teaching style [http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/mlemen/mlemen096.htm] .]At Glasgow he was a pioneer of
collaborative learning [Lynée Lewis Gaillet, "A Foreshadowing of Modern Theories and Practices of Collaborative Learning: The Work of Scottish Rhetorician George Jardine." (1992) [http://eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2/content_storage_01/0000000b/80/25/1a/6f.pdf (PDF)] . See also the same author's "A Genesis of Writing Program Administration: George Jardine at the University of Glasgow" in "Historical Studies of Writing Program Administration: Individuals, Communities, and the Formation of a Discipline" (2004) editors Barbara L'Eplattenier and Lisa Mastrangelo, ISBN 1-932559-22-1, ISBN 1-932559-23-X, ISBN 1-932559-24-8.] ; he wrote up his method in a book ["Outlines of Philosophical Education, illustrated by the Method of Teaching the Logic Class in the University of Glasgow"; see for example [http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~jbeggsoc/begg-07.html] , [http://www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/texts/acampbell/acm/ACM01.HTM] .] . He:"designed a peer review method with rules to be followed by peer editors, whom he labeled “examinators.” By participating in collaborative learning settings, Jardine thought, students develop interpersonal traits and skills “indispensable at once to the cultivation of science, and to the business of active life.”" ["Social Presence: The Secret Behind Online Collaboration", by Mary Beth Lakin [http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=11811] .]
Among those apparently influenced by Jardine was Alexander Campbell, founder of Bethany College,
West Virginia [ [http://www3.baylor.edu/~Elmer_Duncan/ammoralphil.htm American Moral Philosophy In The Nineteenth Century ] ] [For Jardine's general influence, see Arthur Herman, "The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World" (2002), p. 372.] . Jardine's pupils includedChristopher North [ [http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2000/v/n20/005957ar.html Romanticism On the Net 20 (November 2000) ] ] and Sir William Hamilton [ [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scottish-19th/ Scottish Philosophy in the 19th Century (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) ] ] .References
*"Concise Dictionary of National Biography"
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