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Author:   Michele Schweisfurth (University of Glasgow, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.294kg
ISBN:  

9781138929319

ISBN 10:   113892931
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   09 June 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction Part I: Learner-centred Education as a Global Phenomenon 2. Learner-centred Education: Definitions and Provenance 3. Three Justificatory Narratives: Cognition, Emancipation and Preparation 4. Contexts for Learner-centred Education: Global, National and Local Part II: Learner-centred Education in Lower and Middle-income Countries 5. Learner-centred Education as a Promising but Problematic Policy in the Global South 6. The Gambia: The Intersection of the Global and the Local in a Small Developing Country 7. Moving Towards Learner-centred Education: China’s Multiple Paradoxes 8. Russia - Shifting and Resilient Narratives on the ‘Educated Person’ 9. South Africa’s Emancipatory Policy Discourses and Classroom Realities 10. Mobile Students and New Learner-centred Pedagogies Part III: Lessons and Resolutions 11. Ten Key Lessons from Theory, Evidence and Cases 12. Towards a Contextualised Learner-centred Pedagogical Nexus

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Michele Schweisfurth is Chair in Comparative and International Education at the School of Education, University of Glasgow. She is also the editor of the journal Comparative Education.

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