Product Description

This groundbreaking book, now available in paperback for the first time, looks at the theory and practice of learning and how universities can improve their quality and competence.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1550696 in Books
• Published on: 1998-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

From the Back Cover
This book looks at the theory and practice of learning and how universities can improve their quality and competence. It tackles the past failure of the quality and competence movements and advocates a move towards 'Universities of Learning'. The authors advocate an integration of elements that are often dealt with separately - theory and practice, teaching and research and the levels of institution and individual - and handle these dimensions of integration in conjunction with each other.
This new paperback edition will be essential reading for all those who are concerned with improving learning in higher education. It includes an updated preface taking account of developments since the publication of the hardback edition.

Customer Reviews

A must read for anyone concerned with "learning Outcomes"
This book is a breath of fresh air in a world which values only that which can be measured.

The authors build a clear but subtle description of learning based on a range of focused research projects over the years. This perspective replaces the divide between teaching and research, and even the claimed synergy between teaching and research by describing universities in terms of places where learning takles place and is developed.

Learning is seen as expansion of awareness of variations against a background of invariance. Thus change is only detcable against a background of relative non-change, and what changes when we learn is our awareness of distnctions and variations. Thus when we learn, we extend extend the range of situations in which we function, or in otherwooprds, decrease the situatedness of our cognition.