Thursday, 12 December 2019

student-centred learning

Too much of how we learn and teach misses out the student:
Jay Doubleyou: a critique of learning objectives
Jay Doubleyou: students and teachers prefer different activities when learning english...

Maybe we need a different approach:

Student-centered learning, also known as learner-centered education, broadly encompasses methods of teaching that shift the focus of instruction from the teacher to the student. In original usage, student-centered learning aims to develop learner autonomy and independence [1] by putting responsibility for the learning path in the hands of students by imparting them with skills and basis on how to learn a specific subject and schemata required to measure up to the specific performance requirement.[2][3][4] Student-centered instruction focuses on skills and practices that enable lifelong learning and independent problem-solving.[5] Student-centered learning theory and practice are based on the constructivist learning theory that emphasizes the learner's critical role in constructing meaning from new information and prior experience.
Student-centred learning - Wikipedia

Student-centred learning (SCL) is an approach to education, which aims at overcoming some of the problems inherent to more traditional forms of education by focusing on the learner and their needs, rather than being centred around the teacher's input. This approach has many implications for the design and flexibility of curriculum, course content, and interactivity of the learning process and is being increasingly used at universities across Europe.
European Higher Education Area and Bologna Process

This also begs the question of why and what students need to learn:
Jay Doubleyou: producing more employable students

You've been writing about our educational system for decades. What's the most pressing need in public education right now?
Alvin Toffler: Shut down the public education system.

Reshaping Learning from the Ground Up | Edutopia

This is part of a bigger picture - as mapped out on Wikipedia:

Pedagogy


Key concepts

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