Not like this! - On disappointed hopes, surging emotions and associations based on experience during a lecture at an annual conference of the GDM

Authors

  • Hans-Georg Weigand Universität Würzburg

Abstract

I have heard many presentations at GDM conferences - and of course at other conferences too. There were some good presentations, some very good ones. But there were also many - let's say - presentations that could be improved. Very often I was annoyed by the lecture and the way it was presented. I often shook my head in astonishment at the fact that speakers - regardless of their age - don't even know the basic rules of presentation, that they are obviously unable to learn from good presentations that they have certainly already heard. Why is this the case? I have been looking for answers for decades, as well as possible solution strategies.  This article accumulates and concentrates a wide range of personal experiences and presents them in the style of “Leutnant Gustl” (1901) by Arthur Schnitzler https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/schnitzl/gustl/gustl.html. A play that has always impressed the author.

 

Author Biography

Hans-Georg Weigand, Universität Würzburg

Sen.Prof. am Lehrstuhl für Didaktik der Mathematik an der Universität Würzburg

Published

2025-09-23

Issue

Section

50 Jahre GDM