A Will to Learn: Being a Student in an Age of UncertaintyMcGraw-Hill Education, 1 oct. 2007 - 208 pages There is an extraordinary but largely unnoticed phenomenon in higher education: by and large, students persevere and complete their studies. How should we interpret this tendency? Students are living in uncertain times and often experience anxiety, and yet they continue to press forward with their studies. The argument here is that we should understand this propensity on the part of students to persist through a will to learn. This book examines the structure of what it is to have a will to learn. In the explorations here, a language of being, becoming, authenticity, dispositions, voice, air, spirit, inspiration, passion and care is drawn on.As such, this book offers an idea of student development that challenges the dominant views of our age, of curricula understood in terms of skills and even of knowledge and pedagogy understood as bringing off pre-specified 'outcomes'. The will to learn, though, can be fragile. This is of crucial importance, for if the will to learn dissolves, the student's commitment may falter. Accordingly, more than encouraging an interest in the student's subject or in the acquiring of skills, the primary responsibility of teachers in higher education is to sustain and develop the student's will to learn. This is a radical thesis, for it implies a transformation in how we understand the nature of teaching in higher education. |
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... idea of higher education . The idea of higher education calls upon students to come to their own interpretations , actions , judgements and arguments . They are required to be their own agents . They are examined on their own accounts ...
... idea of higher education . The idea of higher education calls upon students to come to their own interpretations , actions , judgements and arguments . They are required to be their own agents . They are examined on their own accounts ...
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... idea of confidence and that is a concept to which we cannot help but return . First , however , we must begin to engage with the idea of voice . The idea of confidence , after all , presumes that one has a voice over and through which ...
... idea of confidence and that is a concept to which we cannot help but return . First , however , we must begin to engage with the idea of voice . The idea of confidence , after all , presumes that one has a voice over and through which ...
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... idea of higher education . Sinclair Goodlad ( 1976 ) spoke – as we observed before of ' authoritative uncertainty ' . The idea now emerging here is adjacent , but slightly apart : it is that of ' authentic uncertainty ' - of being ...
... idea of higher education . Sinclair Goodlad ( 1976 ) spoke – as we observed before of ' authoritative uncertainty ' . The idea now emerging here is adjacent , but slightly apart : it is that of ' authentic uncertainty ' - of being ...
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Where theres a will | 15 |
Being | 27 |
Authenticity | 40 |
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actions anxiety assessed authenticity becoming bring calls challenges Chapter character claim comes commitment complex concepts concern connections continuing course critical curricula curriculum develop dispositions and qualities distinction efforts emerge encouraged energy engage epistemological essay expected experiences feel field forward further gift give given hand Heidegger higher education hold hope human idea individual inspiration intellectual interest kind knowledge least live London look matter meaning mode motive moves necessary nurture observed offer one's ontological outcomes particular passion pedagogical relationship performance perhaps position possible practical precisely present Press question reason relation requires responsibility risk sense simply situation space spirit stand standards student studies suggest surely task teacher teaching term things thinking thought tion turn tutor uncertainty understanding University virtues voice
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