Improving Learning: New Perspectives
- ISBN-10
- 0893973092
- ISBN-13
- 9780893973094
- Category
- Apprentissage
- Pages
- 289
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1988
- Publisher
- Nichols Publishing Company
- Author
- Paul Ramsden
Description
Why do so many children and older students complete their formal education with such a poor grasp of central ideas in science, mathematics and humanities? Is it because we have not yet discovered foolproof teaching techniques? Or because we have not taught them how to think? Or is there, perhaps, some other reason? The authors begin from a common starting point: they assert that the principal focus of learning in colleges and schools should be on changes in students' conceptions of subject matter, rather than the acquisition of quotas of factual information and procedures. If learners do not truly understand what they have learned, they will neither remember it for very long nor be able to use it to solve everyday problems. The key to improving learning is not to be found by searching for ' the best teaching techniques' or 'the vital learning skills'. The truth is much more challenging. The puzzle can only be unlocked by examining what students already know about subject matter and the educational setting in which they learn it. The message to teachers and educational researchers alike is that they, too, must see themselves as learners. There task is to learn what students understand about specific subject content - and then apply this knowledge to improving teaching.
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