Facilitating reflective learning in higher education
By: Anne Brockbank and Ian McGill.
Contributors: McGill, Ian.
Publisher: Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Buckingham; Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: College teaching.; Learning.
Description: This book offers hope and the practical means for university and college teachers seeking a new experience of learning for their students and themselves. The book deals with learning which is real, genuine, relevant to learners now and for the future, and which is significant for their lives. Such learning embraces their relationships, work and careers, community, society and their world. This book enables teachers to acquire an understanding of facilitation and to enhance their ability to facilitate rather than teach in the traditional way. The authors emphasize the centrality of engaging in reflective dialogue with both colleagues and students. They explore the significance of emotion and action as well as cognition in learning. In addition they examine how teachers can best create the conditions for reflective learning. This is a practical book for university and college teachers which will help them facilitate their students' reflective learning.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-276) and index.