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The focus of this chapter is the ‘in-practice’ struggle between two educational paradigms, one that says learning needs to be explicit and rigorous and is therefore teacher-centred and the other that learning needs to be based on the needs and interests of the student and is therefore learner-centred. We suggest that a teacher-centred paradigm still dominates in contemporary education in a variety of ways, despite some claims to the contrary.
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Willis, J., Willis, M., Huijser, H. (2015). Learning Power: Taking Learning-Centredness Seriously in a Blended Learning Environment. In: Harmes, M.K., Huijser, H., Danaher, P.A. (eds) Myths in Education, Learning and Teaching. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137476982_2
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