Research Catalog

Title

Facilitating reflective learning in higher education / by Anne Brockbank and Ian McGill.

Author

Brockbank, Anne, 1943-

Publication

Philadelphia, Pa. : Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, 1998.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

McGill, Ian.

Description

ix, 283 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

This book offers hope and the practical means for university and college teachers seeking a new experience of learning for their students and themselves. The book deals with learning which is real, genuine, relevant to learners now and for the future, and which is significant for their lives. Such learning embraces their relationships, work and careers, community, society and their world. This book enables teachers to acquire an understanding of facilitation and to enhance their ability to facilitate rather than teach in the traditional way. The authors emphasize the centrality of engaging in reflective dialogue with both colleagues and students. They explore the significance of emotion and action as well as cognition in learning. In addition they examine how teachers can best create the conditions for reflective learning. This is a practical book for university and college teachers which will help them facilitate their students' reflective learning.

Subject

• College teaching
• Learning
• Reflective learning

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. 1. Learning and Reflection. 1. Introduction to our Themes. 2. Learning: Philosophies and Models. 3. What is Learning? -- A Review of Learning Theories. 4. The Requirements for Reflection. 5. Reflection and Reflective Practice -- Pt. 2. Facilitating Learning and Reflective Practice. 6. Academic Practice and Learning. 7. Developing Reflective Practice: The Teacher Using Reflective Dialogue with Colleagues. 8. Developing Reflective Practice: The Student Using Reflective Dialogue. 9. Becoming a Facilitator: Facilitation as Enabling Reflective Learning. 10. Facilitation in Practice: Basic Skills. 11. Facilitation in Practice: Further Skills -- Pt. 3. Exemplars. 12. Action Learning. 13. Academic Supervision. 14. Mentoring. 15. Conclusion -- The Society for Research into Higher Education.

ISBN

• 0335196853 (hard)
• 0335196861 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^97047445^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library