Learner-centred education and ‘cultural translation’ |
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Authors: | Paul Thompson |
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Institution: | School of Education, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom |
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Abstract: | This paper contests the proposal that learner-centred education (LCE) may simply be a western construct, irrelevant to the current educational needs of developing countries, by arguing that its specific forms will be more effective when introduced through small-scale institutional relationships than through large-scale contracts with national governments. LCE initiatives are more likely to impact successfully if their professional language has been ‘culturally translated’, a process which relates features of the surface level of an intervention to its underlying social relations of production as part of a dialogue which respects addressees not merely as listeners but also as active agents. |
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Keywords: | Learner-centred education Pedagogy Cultural translation Educational innovation Language learning International education |
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