Interrogating learner-centredness as a vehicle for meaning emerging in practice and researching personal pedagogies: transformative learning, self-efficacy and social presence at two Australian universities
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Article Title | Interrogating learner-centredness as a vehicle for meaning emerging in practice and researching personal pedagogies: transformative learning, self-efficacy and social presence at two Australian universities |
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ERA Journal ID | 39917 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Danaher, Patrick Alan (Author), Danaher, Geoff (Author) and Moriarty, Beverley (Author) |
Editors | Cleary, Kaye |
Journal Title | International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning |
Journal Citation | 3 (3), pp. 4-13 |
Number of Pages | 10 |
Year | 2007 |
Place of Publication | Maleny, Qld, Australia |
ISSN | 1833-4105 |
Web Address (URL) | http://jpl.e-contentmanagement.com/archives/vol/3/issue/3/article/2812/interrogating-learnercentredness-as-a-vehicle |
Abstract | Learner-centredness is a key element of the contemporary dominant discourse pertaining to pedagogies and learning. Yet enacting learner-centredness is far from easy in the increasingly massified higher education system. The authors contend that it is in the intersection between this philosophy and practice that meaning emerges and personal pedagogies can be researched. This paper deploys the authors’ experiences as higher educators covering a diversity of disciplines, encompassing pre-undergraduate, undergraduate and postgraduate domestic and international students and including face-to-face, distance and online delivery modes in two Australian universities. Learner-centredness is interrogated in relation to three key sites: The paper reports examples from each site where learner-centredness is successfully engaged and hence where the meaning emerging in practice is fulfilling and productive. At the same time, interpersonal and structural factors sometimes obstruct the attainment of such positive outcomes. These findings have important implications for the authors’ ongoing research into their personal pedagogies as well as for policy and practice in contemporary higher education more broadly. |
Keywords | Australia; Central Queensland University; learner-centredness; personal pedagogies; self-efficacy; social presence; transformative learning; University of Southern Queensland |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390303. Higher education |
390102. Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development | |
390402. Education assessment and evaluation | |
Public Notes | © Copyright of articles is retained by authors. As this is an open access journal, articles are free to use, with proper attribution, in educational and other non-commercial settings. Paper originally presented at the 3rd International Conference on Pedagogies and Learning, 27-28th Sept, 2007. |
Byline Affiliations | Faculty of Education |
Central Queensland University | |
Event | 3rd International Conference on Pedagogies and Learning: Meanings Emerging in Practice |
ISBN | 9781921729874 |
Event Details | 3rd International Conference on Pedagogies and Learning: Meanings Emerging in Practice Event Date 26 to end of 28 Sep 2007 Event Location Brisbane, Australia |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9y8zv/interrogating-learner-centredness-as-a-vehicle-for-meaning-emerging-in-practice-and-researching-personal-pedagogies-transformative-learning-self-efficacy-and-social-presence-at-two-australian
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