Open AccessDeveloping students as learners - varied phenomena, varied contexts and a developmental trajectory for the whole endeavour
Author(s) -
Graham Gibbs
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of learning development in higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1759-667X
DOI - 10.47408/jldhe.v0i1.30
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , focus (optics) , relation (database) , trajectory , mathematics education , empirical research , psychology , pedagogy , cognitive science , epistemology , computer science , geography , physics , archaeology , database , astronomy , optics , philosophy
This paper is offered as a conceptual map to help 'learning development' to distinguish its various activities and to locate these activities and approaches in relation to pedagogic theory and empirical evidence. It highlights variations in context that have profound implications for what 'learning development' might realistically focus on. The paper also examines parallel developments in 'educational development' over the past 30 years to see if that offers pointers to how 'learning development' might evolve.