UNICEF has commissioned 10 papers and presentations by leading researchers and practitioners to stimulate debate around educational challenges in Eastern and Southern Africa: a region where most children attend school, but many are not learning the basics. While the articles have academic roots, they are not research papers, nor do they represent UNICEF policy. Rather, they are engaging pieces to inspire fresh thinking to improve learning in Eastern and Southern Africa and globally.
This ninth Think Piece is focused on Learner Centred Education (LCE). The speaker, Professor Michele Schweisfurth, questions the effectiveness of learner centred education, which is widely promoted as an example of ‘best practice’ pedagogy. Michele notes that LCE has frequently been introduced without recognition of the material and cultural context leading to poor implementation. Instead, she makes the case for a flexible set of principles (rather than prescriptions) that might be helpful in improving classroom practice everywhere.
Professor Michele Schweisfurth is Chair in International and Comparative Education and Director of the Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change at the University of Glasgow. After 10 years working as a teacher in a range of countries, for the past 20 years, she has been actively researching pedagogy in lower-income and traditional countries.
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