Michele Schweisfurth

Learner-centred Education in International Perspective (eBook, PDF)

Whose pedagogy for whose development?

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Explores debates around learner-centred education (or child-centred education) as a strategy for developing teachers' classroom practice and asks whether a 'Western' construct is appropriate for application in all societies and classrooms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136729133
• Artikelnr.: 38269766

Autorenporträt

Michele Schweisfurth is Chair in Comparative and International Education at the School of Education, University of Glasgow. She is also the editor of the journal Comparative Education.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Part I: Learner-centred Education as a Global Phenomenon
2. Learner-centred Education: Definitions and Provenance 3. Three
Justificatory Narratives: Cognition, Emancipation and Preparation 4.
Contexts for Learner-centred Education: Global, National and Local Part II:
Learner-centred Education in Lower and Middle-income Countries 5.
Learner-centred Education as a Promising but Problematic Policy in the
Global South 6. The Gambia: The Intersection of the Global and the Local in
a Small Developing Country 7. Moving Towards Learner-centred Education:
China's Multiple Paradoxes 8. Russia - Shifting and Resilient Narratives on
the 'Educated Person' 9. South Africa's Emancipatory Policy Discourses and
Classroom Realities 10. Mobile Students and New Learner-centred Pedagogies
Part III: Lessons and Resolutions 11. Ten Key Lessons from Theory, Evidence
and Cases 12. Towards a Contextualised Learner-centred Pedagogical Nexus