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Updating Understandings of "Teaching": Taking Account of Learners' and Teachers' Beliefs
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Maclellan, Effie – Teaching in Higher Education, 2015
The paper reviews recent psycho-educational literature to identify features of teacher thinking which enable learners to acquire meaningful knowledge. The review establishes that one powerful mechanism to improve teaching in higher education turns on exploiting adults' epistemic beliefs: beliefs about the nature and the acquisition of…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Higher Education, Epistemology, Educational Practices