It is a historical stage covering the Renaissance, humanism, and romanticism, in which there were introduced the ideals to the learner-centered approach were introduced, such as observation, experimentation, agency, freedom, free will, and humanism, etc.
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Learner-Centered Approach: The Historical and Ideological Boundaries of the Past, Present, and Future in Higher Education
Metin Kartal (Ankara University, Turkey) and Fatma Bıkmaz (Ankara University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-4240-1.ch010
Abstract
Literature on determining the historical and ideological boundaries of learner-centered education in higher education is gathered under the following four pillars: (1) the pillar of classicism, (2) the pillar of pre-modernism, (3) the pillar of modernism, and (4) the pillar of post-modernism. Of the four pillars, studies on how learner-centeredness could be utilized and leveraged in higher education are still scarce. Certainly, the construction and leverage of learner-centeredness in higher education are thorny and compelling without explaining these pillars. In this chapter, these four pillars of learner-centered education to empower the teaching in higher education will be elaborated and employed to find an ideological and historical perspective to the higher education.