Learning Culture as a guiding concept for sustainable educational development at Higher Education Institutions
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2011-03-07
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Editor(s)
Abstract (De)
In recent years, the discussion about innovating teaching and learning in higher education has focused on a number of core concepts such as outcome-orientation, development of competencies, and student-centered teaching and learning. These terms provide a fairly clear vision of desirable teaching and learning practices on a normative and conceptual level. However, the same does not hold true for strategies on how to implement such concepts to sustainably change current teaching and learning practices. To date, few approaches have been proposed in the scholarly literature on how to accomplish large-scale as well as sustainable changes in higher education: Frequently, educational development is reduced to the course level addressing only teaching and learning methods, technologies and individual approaches to teaching and learning. At the same time, large-scale changes concerning the entire educational landscape of a higher education institution (HEI) are dominated by administrative and managerial considerations. This article proposes the concept of Learning Culture as an institution-wide approach to educational development. This approach addresses different institutional levels from a pedagogical point of view. Such a whole-institution approach can help to attain more sustainable changes in the educational practices at HEI
Language
German
Keywords
Learning Culture
Higher Education
Change
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Book title
red-conference Proceedings
Publisher
NewMinE Lab
Publisher place
Lugano
Volume
Session 7: Sustainability
Start page
179
End page
194
Pages
16
Event Title
International red-conference 2011
Event Location
Ascona, Switzerland
Event Date
07.-10.03.2011
Subject(s)
Eprints ID
79832
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