Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
Date of this Version
2003
Document Type
Article
Citation
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development (2003) 21; doi: 10.3998/tia.17063888.0021.013
Abstract
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).
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License: CC BY-NC-ND