Well can we get to a place without vacuous clichés that broadens the learner
development concept to incorporate academics too? I have not yet got (even)
senior academics to declare that they had fulfilled their educational
potential. So if we are pursuing the concept as one of personal growth,
intellectual and emotional development, then this becomes the core business
of all curriculum and a conference that centrally claims learner development
as central to all in HE.
And we should ensure students as learners are well represented.
Jill Armstrong
Higher Education Academy
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From: learning development in higher education network
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Subject: mapping the LD picture
I, like Ken, am trying to change the philosophy of approach at Northumbria
to move away from this idea of particular students needing 'remedial' help
to one where the university recognises that all students (particularly in a
mass education system) can benefit from learning development - and that the
university has an obligation to recognise this and provide for it. I think
that this would make an excellent conference theme as it encompasses issues
of the nature of our work, the aims of our work and our professional status
within the institution.
Helen Danbury
Study Skills Centre Manager
Student Services Department
Northumberland Building
Northumbria University
0191 243 7645
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