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| Literature: Learning to Teach in Higher Education (Paul Ramsden) (13.07.2008) | |
Last week I read a very interesting book about Teaching in Higher Education.
The author Paul Ramsden focuses on approaches to learning and differentiates
between "deep" and superficial approaches, where the former ones lead to a
proper understanding of the topics of a course, while the latter ones only
bring separate pieces of knowledge into (short term) memory and do not
enable students to see the overall picture or apply those knowledge fragments
to new problems in a meaningful way.
Examples in the book are drawn from several fields of academic teaching,
including Physics, Statistics, Medicine and Animal Science. Ramsden supports
his arguments with references to lots of research papers which have measured
the results of using different teaching approaches. An interesting find was
that the highest correlation was that of excellent grades and a full agreement
with statements such as "The staff are highly concerned in making sure that
we understand."
A summary of the book could be: Think what kind of abilities you want to
see students develop, what kind of change in the student's understanding
do you want to achieve? Then search for ways to help the student make this
change. Good teaching is an enabling of good learning.
Paul Ramsden
Learning to Teach in Higher Education
Routledge Chapman & Hall; 2nd edition 2003, 288 pages
http://www.amazon.de/dp/0415303451/;
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0415303451/
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