Integrative Learning International research and practice

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Synopsis

Current teaching, learning and assessment practices can lead students to believe that courses within a programme are self-sufficient and separate. Integrative Learning explores this issue, and considers how intentional learning helps students become integrative thinkers who can see connections in seemingly disparate information, and draw on a wide range of knowledge to make decisions.

Written by international contributors who engaged reflectively with their teaching and their students’ learning, the book seeks to develop a shared language of integrative learning, encouraging students to adapt skills learned in one situation to problems encountered in another, and make autonomous connections across courses, between experiences, and throughout their lives. More informed teachers can help students develop the necessary attributes for intentional learning, which include having a sense of purpose, fitting fragmentary information into a ‘learning framework’, understanding something of their own learning processes, asking probing questions, reflecting on their own choices, and knowing when to ask for help.

Integrative Learning draws on international research and vast studies to provide the reader with the resources to ensure access to a unified learning experience. The book discusses conceptual and technical tools necessary for facilitating integrative learning across a range of disciplines as well as providing learning pedagogies and considers integrative learning in the context of the relevance of higher education in the complexity and uncertainty of the 21st century. It will appeal to academics and researchers in the field of higher education, as well as those generating higher education curriculums.

Book details

Series:
Routledge Research in Higher Education
Author:
Daniel Blackshields, James G. R. Cronin, Bettie Higgs, Shane Kilcommins, Marian McCarthy, Anthony Ryan
ISBN:
9781134648573
Related ISBNs:
9781315884769, 9780415711074, 9780415711074, 9781138291065, 9781138291065
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2020-02-04
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2015
Copyright by:
Daniel Blackshields, James G. R. Cronin, Bettie Higgs, Shane Kilcommins, Marian McCarthy, and Anthony Ryan 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Education, Nonfiction