Examining the Challenges of Learner-Centered Education (176)

2000

This article, the third in a series of four installments, begins by discussing the need for paradigm change in education and for a critical systems approach to paradigm change, and examines current progress toward paradigm change. Then it explores what a learner-centered, Information-Age educational system should be like, including the APA learner-centered psychological principles, the National Research Council's findings on how people learn, the work of McCombs and colleagues on learner-centered schools and classrooms, personalized learning, differentiated instruction, and brain-based instruction. Finally, one possible vision of a learner-centered school is described. (Contains 3 tables.)

1996

There is a revolution taking place in education, one that deals with the philosophy of how one teaches, of the relationship between teacher and student, of the way in which a classroom is structured, and the nature of curriculum. At the heart is a powerful pedagogy, one that has been developing over the past hundred years. It embraces social issues, the culture of the classroom, life-long learning concerns, and perhaps both last and least, technology.

Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2013

2019

International Journal of Technology in Education and Science (IJTES), 2020

Learner-centered education has the potential to meet the needs of individual students and better prepare them for a rapidly changing global world. However, it can be a challenging task to implement learner-centered education in the current education system which was designed for sorting rather than learning. Although an increasing number of research studies report that teachers have positive attitudes toward learner-centered education, there is a paucity of research that has examined teachers’ learner-centered practice. To address this gap, this study examined the strategies and tools used by 125 teachers to create learner-centered classrooms using an online survey. Further, the study explored the barriers they faced when using technology to facilitate learner-centered instruction. The strategies and tools used for learner-centered instruction are reported in six major categories: (1) getting to know individual students, (2) building a positive and supportive culture, (3) providing personalized learning experiences, (4) providing authentic learning experiences, (5) facilitating collaborative learning, and (6) facilitating self-regulated learning. The major barriers to using technology to support learner-centered pedagogy included lack of time, lack of technology, lack of knowledge of learner-centered instruction, and standardized tests.

Educational Horizons, 2001

This paper introduces “learner-centered” edu-cation from a research and theory base that inte-grates what we know about learners and learning both inside and outside formal school settings and describes the work of the author and col-leagues in developing self-...

Academia Engineering, 2024

The increasing use of electronic appliances has resulted in millions of tons of outdated devices and electronic waste, a small percentage of which is recycled. This work focuses on opening new gates by using electronic waste as an alloy source to produce important industrial alloys rather than using pure elements, which results in the depletion of earth resources and environmental hazards. The samples studied were prepared by diluting the waste (metal constituents) into scrap aluminum (Al)-based alloys. The microstructures, phase characterization, and chemical or elemental analyses of the prepared samples were investigated. The results of the chemical analysis showed an increase in the content of some elements such as silicon (Si), iron (Fe), chromium (Cr), copper (Cu), and nickel (Ni) compared to the initial Al-base charge main constituent, proving the formation of complex solid solutions. Throughout the study, the microstructural and phase analyses showed the formation of rhombic dodecahedron primary α-AlFeCrSi phase instead of the needle-shaped β-Al5FeSi. This can be explained by the presence of Cr (added from waste) that can eliminate the harmful effects of the primary Fe-rich intermetallic phases by transforming those into solid solutions.