From: Diane Nutt [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 14 November 2016 16:25
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Subject: Re: when did 'student-centred' learning in HE become a 'thing'?

Hi Peter Jason and all

I'm so pleased someone mentioned Independent Studies and John Wakeford, as I was thinking about mentioning doing a degree in Independent Studies 1990-93 and feeling the whole ethos of IS was student-centred learning. In my first year I did peer assessment, self-assessment and a student group developed project (all our own work, but under the wonderful Jo Malseed's gentle guidance). I then designed most of my own modules in my degree (although we were required to do some formally taught modules) with the support of staff and fellow students. 

 

25+ years on, and some of it still seems amazingly innovative, and a lot of recent discussion in the wider sector about 'student centred activities' (whatever we call them) seems tokenistic in comparison - so I'm not sure we have really taken 'student-centred' to heart in HE. 

 

I tried to find a suitable reference from the early days of Independent Studies but haven't managed it, however Jason, you might ask John Wakeford? 

Diane

 

 

Picking up on Jason's original point, I remember a colleague at Yeovil College in 1985 remarking drily that he had started teaching in primary schools in the early sixties when child-centredness was in vogue. He moved to secondary teaching (not for that reason) in the late sixties and the movement arrived there (The Disappearing Dais - Frank Whitehead). He felt pursued. By 1985 the same movement, now called student-centredness, had appeared in further education. Key texts then were Carl Rogers' Freedom to Learn and Brandes and Ginnis's 1986 book "A guide to student-centred learning".  Of course the wave eventually reached the shores of HE in the early nineties - given a helpful push by Graham Gibbs's "Teaching more students" project, that Mick has cited. It pays to keep an eye on primary school pedagogy, but only if you're thinking of  quite a long career in HE educational development.

 

Now where's my slippers.

 

Paul

 

 

 

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Subject: Re: when did 'student-centred' learning in HE become a 'thing'?

Hi Jason and others,

 

It seems to me that I was engaged in lots of conversations about communicative learning in the 90s (I was teaching language); student-centred teaching in the noughties; and active learning now. This would support your feeling that the concept of student-centredness ‘really arrived’ (i.e. became embedded) in the 00s.

 

Not that the above are all exactly the same thing, but they fit within the dominant paradigm of learning by doing.

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Hi Jason

 

Interesting question. 

 

When I was Director of Centre for Active Learning at Gloucestershire I compiled a list of references on active learning. It is still available on my website (under resources). I’ve added a few newer references since then but not systematically.

 

Some of the pre Barr and Tagg refs (and pre Sally and Phil’s nuptials)  include those below. I am not sure they explicitly used the term ‘student centred learning’ but that is effectively what they were talking about. 

 

Angelo, T.A. and Cross, P.A. 1993.Classroom assessment techniques (San Francisco: Jossey Bass). 2^nd Edit.

Bonwell, C. and Eison, J. 1991.Active learning: creating excitement in the classroom (ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report No. 1). Washington, DC: George Washington University.

Chickering, A.W. and Gamson, Z.F. 1987. Seven principles for good practice,AAHE Bulletin 39, 3-7.

Denicolo, P., Entwistle, N. and Hounsell, D. 1992. What is active learning?Effective Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Module 1, Sheffield: CVCP Universities’ Staff Development and Training Unit.

Gibbs, G. 1988.Learning by doing: a guide to teaching and learning methods. London: Further Education Unit.  Available:http://www2.glos.ac.uk/gdn/publ.htm#other 

Gibbs, G. 1992.Lecturing to more students: Teaching more students 2 (Oxford: Polytechnic and Colleges Funding Council).

Jenkins, A. 1992. Active learning in structured lectures, in Gibbs, G. and Jenkins, A. (eds)Teaching large classes in higher education: how to maintain quality with reduced services. pp.63-77. London: Kogan Page.

Johnson, D. W., Johnson, R.T. and Smith, K.A. 1991.Active learning: cooperation in the college classroom. Edina, MN: Interaction Book Co.

Myers, C. and Jones, T.B. 1993.Promoting active learning: strategies for the college classroom. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Best wishes

 

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Hi Jason

Barr and Tagg (1995) is one of the earlier references to Student Centred Learning in HE that I am aware of…see the citation in this piece I found in a very quick and dirty google search:

http://petersj.people.cofc.edu/CCLI/PDF/Student_Centered_Learning-FacultyQuestions.pdf

I hope this helps,

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From: Online forum for SEDA, the Staff & Educational Development Association [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf OfJason Davies
Sent: 14 November 2016 14:43
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Subject: when did 'student-centred' learning in HE become a 'thing'?

 

Hi everyone

Avoiding the temptation to point people at shelfstore instead of IKEA (http://www.shelfstore.co.uk, oops), I have a completely different question for today;)

When did 'student-centred' become a thing in universities? I'm after very brief impressionistic answers here. Searching around the net has tended to give me a lot of school-facing stuff and/or articles about Vygotsky and Piaget etc, but I'm interested in something like 'when did we (working in universities and not teacher training) not have to explain what this means toeveryone we meet?'

I didn't hear it as a student (late 80s, early 90s) but I know people were blazing trails (tip of the cap to Lewis Elton and others) and my sense is that it really arrived in the 00s as something that wasn't going to disappear any time soon and started having proper roles for staff to promote and develop it. Is that about right?

(I'm struck by the fact that we say our students will be doing jobs that don't exist yet..took me a while to realise that was true of me!)

Thanks for any quick thoughts

Cheers
Jason

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