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Examining the Challenges of Learner-Centered Education (176)

Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
Learner-centered education has been touted as a way to improve teacher-centered educational systems. However, educators and researchers need to be cautious about its problems in addition to considering its benefits. We set out to identify challenges to learner-centered education through the eyes of educators in a truly learner-centered school with a rare, self-directed, project-based learning approach. During their interviews, three administrators and all nine teachers (called advisors there) described challenges that they still faced in learner-centered instruction and learner-centered assessment. We describe these challenges in hopes of enabling learner-centered education to become easier for educators and more effective for students....Read more
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Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont
University of Neuchâtel
Asimina M Ralli
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Elliot Jurist
The City College of New York
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Università degli Studi di Padova