Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications and Presentations
Developing a New Framework for Conceptualizing “Student-Centered Learning”
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-13-2013
Abstract
Instead of being a simple concept, “student-centered learning” is actually a complicated and messy idea that has encompassed a wide range of sometimes fundamentally different meanings, each holding important implications for education. Thus, educators need a more nuanced and more productive framework for conceptualizing student-centeredness in education. The framework proposed in this essay divides student-centered learning into three contours: learning contexts that center in students, that center on students, and that center with students. In using prepositional distinctions among these different centering contexts, the framework urges educators to let go of broad “student-centered” generalizations and to adopt more precise language about student-centeredness that more accurately speaks to the nature and implications of a particular educational relationship.
Recommended Citation
Neumann, J. W. (2013). Developing a New Framework for Conceptualizing “Student-Centered Learning.” The Educational Forum, 77(2), 161–175. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131725.2012.761313
Publication Title
The Educational Forum
DOI
10.1080/00131725.2012.761313
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