Open Access11: Integrity in Learner‐Centered Teaching
Author(s) -
Robertson Douglas
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
to improve the academy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-4822
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-4822.2003.tb00388.x
Subject(s) - mathematics education , psychology , process (computing) , pedagogy , computer science , operating system
Learner‐centered teaching challenges teachers with inherent conflicts and can be viewed as a conflicted educational helping relationship. This chapter explores fundamental conflicts in learner‐centered teaching as well as ways to handle them constructively. Learner‐centered teacher integrity is seen as the degree to which contradictory demands on the teacher (e.g., facilitating learning as well as evaluating it) are brought into synergistic relationship. A process for enhancing these synergies is suggested. This discussion emerges from a line of work that attempts to further develop the learner‐centered teaching role in higher education (Robertson, 1996, 1997, 1999a, 1999b, 2000a, 2000b, 2000c, 2001).