Uncapitalised ‘learning outcomes’: the tutor and student’s friend
It’s always a nice moment when you come across an article, conference paper, blog post, etc in which the author(s) expresses similar views on a topic to the ones that you’ve been stating for some time, particularly if those views are possibly not the most popular or common ones. It’s a nice moment because you feel a sense […]
Making learning outcomes work for social responsibility and not neoliberalism
Last week I read a really interesting piece by Henry Giroux called ‘Defending higher education in the age of neoliberal savagery’. In this piece Giroux makes some key critical comments: – As market mentalities and moralities tighten their grip on all aspects of society, democratic institutions and public spheres are being downsized, if […]
Neoliberal (economically) focused HE: why it reinforces performative learning outcomes
In a tweet last week I asked whether we should be focused on ‘learning outcomes’ or ‘outcomes for learners’. This was after I had read an interesting paper by William Buhrman (2011) who argued that ‘learning outcomes’ should be reframed as ‘outcomes for learners’. This latter phrasing, he suggested, goes beyond ‘what we want students to know about’ […]
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