TY - CHAP
T1 - Applying student- centred approaches to learning in health professional education
AU - Parry, Yvonne
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - INTRODUCTION This chapter endeavours to explore some of the influences that affect the student’s experience of university education. Teachers’ knowledge of student learning – namely, how students learn and the learning environment – can be limited by individual contextual variations (such as the social, cultural, discipline and institutional constraints in meeting students’ and teachers’ needs); however, some understanding of the student cohort is important. Any development of learning materials needs to take into account the learning environment. Th is chapter explores some of the issues that are crucial to students in the health professions. These include the students as potential health professionals, teachers supporting the students, and university environment including the institutional infrastructure.1-3 According to Benson and Samarawickrema,4 in educationContext is a complex, multifaceted, perspective-dependent concept which may include a range of factors … specific to the learning and teaching environment, to disciplinary, institutional … social influences and personal issues affecting students’ lives.(p61)Students and their environments are thus inextricably interconnected in their learning experience. For health professional students, their own learning needs and the learning environment can infl uence their future career pathway and the requisite need for refl ective practice.
AB - INTRODUCTION This chapter endeavours to explore some of the influences that affect the student’s experience of university education. Teachers’ knowledge of student learning – namely, how students learn and the learning environment – can be limited by individual contextual variations (such as the social, cultural, discipline and institutional constraints in meeting students’ and teachers’ needs); however, some understanding of the student cohort is important. Any development of learning materials needs to take into account the learning environment. Th is chapter explores some of the issues that are crucial to students in the health professions. These include the students as potential health professionals, teachers supporting the students, and university environment including the institutional infrastructure.1-3 According to Benson and Samarawickrema,4 in educationContext is a complex, multifaceted, perspective-dependent concept which may include a range of factors … specific to the learning and teaching environment, to disciplinary, institutional … social influences and personal issues affecting students’ lives.(p61)Students and their environments are thus inextricably interconnected in their learning experience. For health professional students, their own learning needs and the learning environment can infl uence their future career pathway and the requisite need for refl ective practice.
U2 - 10.1201/b20752
DO - 10.1201/b20752
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781909368712
SP - 83
EP - 95
BT - Evidence-based Education in the Health Professions
A2 - Brown, Ted
A2 - Williams, Brett
PB - Radcliffe Publishing
ER -