Learning to Effect by Ronald Barnett

Learning to Effect by Ronald Barnett

This text discusses contemporary issues of curriculum change in higher education, and examines various ideas and initiatives concerned with making student learnings more effective. It addresses curriculum purposes, curriculum delivery, and curriculum impact on the wider society. It considers the ways in which the higher education curriculum is changing in response to the wider society, how a higher quality of curriculum delivery might be achieved, and how the necessary institutional change might be effected. It covers, for instance, experiential learning, skills and training, competence and outcomes, assessment, student control over learning, the quality of teaching and learning, curriculum theory, and the institutional context. More generally, it explores ways in which teaching approaches and the curriculum in higher education can be designed so as to have a demonstrably positive effect on the quality of student learning.

Ronald Barnett is Professor of Higher Education at the Institute of Education, University of London where, from 1994 to 2001, he was also Dean of Professional Development. His books include The Idea of Higher Education, The Limits of Competence, Higher Education: A Critical Business, Realizing the University and Beyond All Reason (all published by Open University Press).

Kelly Coate is Research Officer in the School of Lifelong Education and International Development at the Institute of Education, University of London. Her research interests are in the areas of teaching and learning in higher education, the higher education curriculum, and social justice and equity issues.

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ISBN 13	9780335194995
ISBN 10	0335194990
Title	Learning to Effect
Author	Ronald Barnett
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Open University Press
Year published	1995-03-01
Number of pages	240
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