TY - JOUR AU - Biehl-Missal, Brigitte PY - 2015/01/19 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Let me entertain you?: Some reflexions on the professor as a DJ JF - Organizational Aesthetics JA - oa VL - 4 IS - 1 SE - Editorial DO - UR - https://oa.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/oa/article/view/40 SP - 4-8 AB - Imagine night clubs, ecstatic crowds and a DJ's pounding bass lines. And now think of a lecture theatre. You see any parallels yet? Well, how about that a DJ is nothing when the crowd does not dance, and a professor is unhappy when students, er, don't feel entertained? On the dark side of the aesthetic development of education to be considered in this editorial there is a definite trend towards entertainment: the portemanteau word "€œedutainment"€ refers to both education and entertainment and has received critique as some teachers seem to invest more effort in entertaining students rather than educating them (Billsberry, 2014). ER -