Lessons from abroad: whatever happened to pedagogy?

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Learner-centred pedagogy: Towards a post-2015 agenda for teaching and learning

“…For these, what teachers and learners do together in the classroom has an important role to play and some pedagogies are more effective than others in generating desired learning outcomes (Westbrook et al, 2013). There are strong arguments suggesting that learner motivation is at least as important and that this is generated beyond the classroom as much as in it (Elliott, 2014), but even within the question of motivation, pedagogy is a significant shaper. However, learners' experiences of classroom life are important for reasons beyond what are often called 'the basics'.…”

Learner Autonomy in Developing Countries

“…Subscribing to the contextualist paradigm of educational reform (Elliott, 2014), which emphasizes the cultural situatedness of all educational practices, we are well aware of the difficulty in transferring teaching approaches from one context to another, and indeed of the long history of failure in the export from the west of 'learner-centred' educational approaches (Schweisfurth, 2011). Rather, we are suggesting that autonomy-as the ability to take control of one's own learning-is an essential characteristic of all successful learners and can be found everywhere if we know how to look.…”

Don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it's gone? Skills-led qualifications, secondary school attainment and policy choices

“…If Elliott (2014) is correct, future governments should be looking to ways of promoting engagement and motivation in order to compete internationally; areas where the UK languishes behind (West, 2010). Instead, the drive to increase 'standards' is most likely to see schools focus curriculum time on academic subjects (Lupton & Hempel-Jorgensen, 2012).…”