1st Edition

Learner-centred Education in International Perspective Whose pedagogy for whose development?

By Michele Schweisfurth Copyright 2013
184 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Is learner-centred education appropriate for all societies and classrooms? Learner-centred education (LCE) is a travelling policy, widely promoted by international agencies and national governments. Arguments in favour of this pedagogical tradition refer to theories and evidence from cognitive psychology, claiming that all learners can benefit equally from its judicious use. Beyond the benefits... Read more

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 

Biography

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.