Resources: Student centred education

15 resources found for "Student centred education"

Science education students taking ownership of their learning: This paper by Liz Lakin from the University of Cumbria, forms part of the ESCalate Help Directory for Teacher Educators and is part of the Research Papers from the Teacher Educator Community series. This paper reports on the initial outcomes of an exercise with Secondary students in the conceptual development year of their undergraduate or post graduate training. Students were asked to use a focussed learning log to assist with their studies. The...
Hearing the student voice: involving students in curriculum design and development: This brief online article describes an ESCalate development project led by Fiona Campbell at Napier University. The Hearing the Student Voice project investigated effective means to capture and use the student voice to inform academic professional development. This development project will take that work on and explore innovative methods which enable students to contribute effectively to curriculum design and development. Using the materials and...
Resources from Students as researchers : novice to expert; the first annual ESCalate student conference: Students as researchers : novice to expert; the first annual ESCalate student conference was held in April 2009, for Education undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students to consider the value and purpose of small-scale personal research in education for both individuals and groups. The resources from this event include presentations on; The Research Process: from Inception to Dissemination; Students as researchers in the first year...
Poster Presentations from 2nd Annual ESCalate Student Conference Students as Stakeholders: take an active part in your own learning: Poster Presentations from 2nd Annual ESCalate Student Conference Students as Stakeholders: take an active part in your own learning, 16 April 2010. Each poster presentation has a brief abstract, with links to poster / presentation files
Editorial : Towards a new psychology of student learning: This is the editorial for the ESCalate newsletter issue 11, summer 2008 Towards a new psychology of student learning, written by Tony Brown, Director of ESCalate. It explores how psychodynamic theory offers an exploration of relational experience and the defences we use to cope with relations: with self and other and the ego's attempts at self-protection from stress and anxiety in the face of the unfamiliar. Arguing that with a wealth of...
University of East London (UEL) Continuum: This is an ESCalate Commissioned Work project led by Professor John Storan, Dr Petula Peters and Kathy Wright of the University of East London. The project proposal carried out in the year 2008/9 focused on four areas of activity. These were: 1) Survey - New Learning Professionals Online survey of “New learning professionals” Focus groups (6-8 respondents per group) conducted with survey respondents 2) Listening to Learners – Student Voice The...
What has inquiry based learning got to do with learning and teaching in a business school and beyond?: This is an article from the ESCalate newsletter, autumn 2008 by Margaret Page of the University of the West of England. In June 2008 two tutors and three student researchers from Bristol Business School met at Bristol Parkway station to travel up to the LTEA conference in Sheffield. The LTEA conference was a first for us in many ways. For students this was a first academic conference. For tutors it was a first LTEA conference and a first...
Developing the partnership between out of school educational agencies and initial teacher education: This is an ESCalate development project led by John McCullagh of Stranmillis University College and featuring a partnership with the W5 centre in Belfast. Rationale Out of school ‘informal educational’ visits to science discovery centres, museums, nature reserves, etc. have much to contribute to the overall learning experience of children. However the extent to which such trips impact on pupils’ learning largely depend on how the experience is...
Students as researchers : novice to expert: This is an article from the ESCalate newsletter, issue 14, summer 2009 reporting on the first ESCalate student conference - Students as researchers : novice to expert - held on Monday 20th April 2009, at the Lakeside Centre, Birmingham. The article gives a flavour of the day and what was covered in the different sessions
Learner-centredness and the class of 130: This is an article from the ESCalate newsletter, issue 11, summer 2008. Dr Jenny Moon writes about how her Teaching Fellow award helped her to travel to Tanzania and take part in an Oxfam project (EQUIP). She worked on a Primary School project in rural Tanzania for three weeks, mainly helping the local project workers to structure the documentation of the project in order to promote its uptake in other areas of the country. The focus of the...
Let’s hear it for the student voice!: This is an article from the ESCalate newsletter, summer 2010, celebrating 10 years of the education subject centre. Fiona Campbell argues passionately for the inclusion of the student voice in all aspects of higher education and provides an overview of the two projects that ESCalate supported as a way of mainstreaming this once marginal area
Aaron Porter : Keynote speech from 2nd annual ESCalate student conference students as stakeholders : take an active part in your own learning: Short video of extracts from Aaron Porter (NUS President) Keynote speech from the ESCalate event 2nd Annual ESCalate Student Conference Students as Stakeholders: take an active part in your own learning, 16 April 2010. Also an audio version synched with the presentation slides
Students as researchers : novice to expert: This is an article from the ESCalate newsletter, autumn 2008 giving notice of the first annual ESCalate conference for students. Organised by the Higher Education Subject Centre for Education ESCalate Monday 20th April Aston Conference Centre – Aston University In April 2009, ESCalate will be hosting its first major conference specifically aimed at undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students in education. The event will provide an...
'Student engagement’, what does it really mean? A case study of students’ and staff perceptions and experiences of student engagement in one Higher Education Institution: This project explores how students want to be involved in their learning and teaching experience. It aims to establish how opportunities for engagement can be developed in order to encourage further engagement across the student body
Resources from Listening to Learners: Partnership in Action: Resources from the ESCalate event Listening to Learners: Partnership in Action, 22 April 2009. The ‘Student Voice’ agenda provides students and young people the opportunity to have a say in their world, to contribute to their community, and to better inform decisions that are made on their behalf. Students will ‘become more active participants in their education, including the evaluation of their own learning’ and this will impact positively on...