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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brockbank, Anne, 1943-

Contributor:

McGill, Ian.

Class of 1932 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College teaching.

Learning.

Physical Description:

ix, 283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Buckingham ; Philadelphia, PA : Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, 1998.

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 which is significant for their lives. Such learning embraces their relationships, work and careers, community, society and their world.

Contents:

Part 1 Learning and Reflection 1

1 Introduction to our Themes 3

2 Learning: Philosophies and Models 18

3 What is Learning? - A Review of Learning Theories 32

4 The Requirements for Reflection 56

5 Reflection and Reflective Practice 70

Part 2 Facilitating Learning and Reflective Practice 89

6 Academic Practice and Learning 91

7 Developing Reflective Practice: The Teacher Using Reflective Dialogue with Colleagues 108

8 Developing Reflective Practice: The Student Using Reflective Dialogue 127

9 Becoming a Facilitator: Facilitation as Enabling Reflective Learning 145

10 Facilitation in Practice: Basic Skills 166

11 Facilitation in Practice: Further Skills 189

Part 3 Exemplars 215

12 Action Learning 217

13 Academic Supervision 231

14 Mentoring 252.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [268]-276) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

0335196861

0335196853

OCLC:

38042971