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This site is mainly about learning and teaching at college, university and professional levels. It concentrates on underlying principles, values and analytical tools and the synthesis of odd ideas.

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Learning site Teaching site Exploring resistance to learning and change. What makes for an effective tutorial? A useful construct about "dependence" and "independence" Four kinds of practice and strategies to address them. A graphic model for conceptualising educational strategies. Technology not only assists learning, but changes what it means. Principles rather than prescriptions for evaluating equal opportunities. Literature review on the psychology of points of view. What does all this stuff about "discourse" amount to? ...making mayonnaise Banton's useful continuum of roles: useful for equal opportunities among other things. A much misunderstood model, clarified to my satisfaction at least. A simple but persuasive model of the relations between population, technology, economics, culture -- and education. A method of exploring decisions and consequences. Two different traditions of response to having done wrong. What I am looking for in marking work at Master's level. How to lay out and present submissions in the humanities and social sciences. These papers aspire to some degree of originality, as publiished or presented material. A section of pragmatically useful ways of thinking about situations relevant to learning and teaching. Practical stuff on writing and submitting for academic credit. Ideas which are useful or important but either inaccessible or misunderstood. About this site Educational philosophy of Thomas Gradgrind Writing an essay is like baking a loaf Alternative perspectives on some taken-for-granted principles in (post-compulsory) education Formal education is a mistake Why should colleges presume to select their customers/students? Teaching to objectives inhibits learning Trying to create a positive learning environment undermines real learning The fad of learning styles is both useless and counter-productive Surface learning makes sense Supporting students is just creating a false situation and merely delaying failure Criterion-referenced assessment is phoney fairness Download a customisable system for consistent, chore-reduced marking and feedback Learning and teaching links Resource-based learning and its discontents Distinction between process and content Symptomatic and substantive frames On knowing that you don't know, etc. Perspectives on communication and understanding Forms of knowledge and their educational significance Some bits of my reflective journal Where I'm coming from Account of a short course which engendered resistance beyond competence to expertise Reflective weblog About doceo

 

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November 2003