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Conclusion: Beyond student-centered classrooms – a comprehensive approach to SCLT Through Student-Centered Ecosystems
ISBN
978-0-367-20052-7
Type
book section
Date Issued
2020
Author(s)
Klemenčič, Manja
Editor(s)
Klemenčič, Manja
Abstract (De)
This chapter is guided by a set of questions: How can higher education through their education mission best serve its students and the knowledge societies of 21st century? What kind of learning and teaching policies and practices do we need? and How can we support the development of such learning and teaching in higher education? In addressing these questions, we revisit the two main arguments made in this Handbook. First, student-centered learning and teaching (SCLT) have the potential to foster student learning at higher levels of cognitive activity and thus enable deeper learning. Second, SCLT processes are embedded in and enabled by broader institutional (and national and supranational) environments that consist of a variety of components and related elements – both human and material. These components and elements, we argue, constitute student-centered ecosystems (SCEs). SCEs are defined as culturally sensitive, flexible and interactive systems of SCLT in higher education which exist both within higher education institutions and in higher education systems. We introduce a SCEs framework consisting of five components: (1) Curriculum, pedagogy and assessment, (2) Teaching and learning support, (3) Quality of learning and teaching, (4) Governance and administration, and (5) Policies and finance. Each of these components collectively – in an aligned and mutually reinforcing way – constitute SCEs and enable SCLT. And each of these components comprises several elements which can serve as indicators of presence of SCLT in a given institution, study program or higher education system. This concluding chapter introduces the SCEs framework and develops the main components and underlying indicators of SCEs.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SHSS - Kulturen, Institutionen, Maerkte (KIM)
Book title
The Routledge International Handbook of Student-Centered Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
Publisher
Routledge
Publisher place
Abingdon, UK and New York, US
Volume
1
Start page
626
End page
644
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Contact Email Address
sabine.hoidn@unisg.ch
Additional Information
https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-International-Handbook-of-Student-Centered-Learning-and-Teaching/Hoidn-Klemencic/p/book/9780367497965
Eprints ID
266969