Making Learning-Centred Teaching Work in Asia and Beyond by Tan, Lynette; Jew, Daniel; Blumberg, Phyllis;

Short description:

The authors describe their faculty learning community-based journey through the adaptation, implementation, and assessment of a series of practical learning-centred teaching strategies. A valuable guide for anyone interested in implementing student learning-centred pedagogical approaches and using rubrics for assessing teaching practice. 

Long description:

This book guides readers to transition their teaching to learning-centred practices. Based on Weimer’s (2002, 2013) and Blumberg’s (2009, 2019) framework, the authors describe their faculty learning community-based journey through the adaptation, implementation, and assessment of a series of practical learning-centred teaching strategies.

While furnishing a critical discussion of challenges, directions, and development of learning-centred pedagogy as applied to an Asian context, this book provides suggested pathways for educators around the world to embark on their own journey toward learning-centred teaching. These pathways cover a range of disciplines and teaching contexts from architecture and engineering to systems thinking and general education, illustrating the robustness and flexibility of learning-centred teaching. The authors provide examples of good teaching practice to help instructors, instructional designers, faculty developers and university administrators see how principles of learning-centred teaching and assessment can translate practically into quality classroom teaching and learning. The rigorous assessment methodology is both highly reflective and readily applicable to teaching assessment and portfolio development. It also shows how Blumberg’s (2019) rubrics and Cole & Stavros’ (2019) SOAR (Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations and Results) framework can be used to evaluate the impact of interventions.

Contributing unique insights, this is a valuable guide for anyone interested in implementing student learning-centred pedagogical approaches and using rubrics for assessing teaching practice.

"Finally- a book that makes visible the transformative learning narratives of students and those who teach them in the diverse intellectual and cultural milieu across the Asian context. The scholarly, highly considered stance through which these chapters exemplify the cultivation of faculty ownership to centre learning provides invaluable insights for educators and universities across the world."

Kathy M. Takayama, Founding Director – Center for Inclusive Excellence in Teaching, College of the Holy Cross; former Interim Dean of Faculty Affairs, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University and Executive Director, Center for Professional Development & Inclusive Excellence (C-Hub)

"An empowering guide for educators seeking to meaningfully apply learning-centred pedagogies across diverse Asian contexts. The editors and contributors seamlessly bridge global scholarship with authentic local practice, offering actionable strategies grounded in deep reflection and evidence."

Chwen Jen Chen, Professor, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS)

"A powerful and timely contribution that shows how learning-centred teaching can be thoughtfully adapted to Asian higher education—grounded in research, rich in practice, and globally relevant."

Sabine Hoidn, Lecturer, University of St.Gallen, co-editor of The Routledge International Handbook of Student-Centered Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

"An exemplary and exemplifying collective work on situated educational practice. Readers are invited to actively engage with the thoughts and reflections contained in the book, thus having a useful tool through which to critically consider their own educational practices. Praise for a lived and lively tool for truly critical reflections on educational practices world-wide."

Roberto Di Napoli, Emeritus Professor, University of London

"Providing a timely and insightful account on student-centred learning and teaching in Asian higher education, Making Learning-Centred Teaching Work in Asia and Beyond is accessible, actionable and empowering for scholars and educators alike. It presents an essential resource on teaching and learning connecting and contextualizing Western scholarship and practice with and within Asian higher education cultures and traditional Asian approaches to learning and teaching.

Manja Klemenčič, University of Ljubljana and Harvard University

Table of Contents:

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Foreword
Mary Deane Sorcinelli

Part I. Contexts of Learning-Centred Teaching

Chapter 1. Why Learning-Centred Teaching? Join Us on a Transformational Journey as Educators
Lynette Tan, Daniel Jew & Phyllis Blumberg

Chapter 2. Our Faculty Learning Community: A Shared Journey of Developing More Learning-Centred Teaching
Daniel Jew, Siu-Kit Lau & Bellam Sreenivasulu

Chapter 3. Concepts and Tools for Systematic Review and Analysis of Teaching
Phyllis Blumberg

Part II. Courses: Learning-Centred Teaching Examples

Chapter 4. Developing Student Agency and Responsibility for Learning: Strategies to Redistribute the Balance of Power and Instil Meta-Cognitive Skills
Lynette Tan

Chapter 5. Enhancing Engagement, Participation, and Reflection through a Co-Constructed Rubric Exercise
Joel K. Q. Chow

Chapter 6. Empowering Students’ Self-Learning using the Case Method
Kuan Y. H.

Chapter 7. Learning-Centred Teaching and Function of Content on Students’ Learning of Systems Thinking and System Dynamics Modelling
Bellam Sreenivasulu

Chapter 8. Reimagining the Role of the Instructor in a Residential College Course on Identity
Kankana Mukhopadhyay

Chapter 9. Promoting Student Engagement with Content in Engineering Education: An Integrated Design Using Blended Learning and Formative Assessment
Daniel W. M. Sng

Chapter 10. Students’ Experience and Performance in Process-Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) in a Design Course
Siu-Kit Lau

Chapter 11. Learning-Centric Instructional Design: Documenting Your Teaching Journey via Longitudinal Self-Assessment
Daniel Jew

Part III. Changing to Learning-Centred Teaching in Asia and Beyond

Chapter 12. The Use of Learning-centred Teaching Constructs in Our Asian Context. Overview and More Traditional Constructs: Role of Instructor, Function of Content and Purposes and Processes of Student Assessment
Daniel Jew & Phyllis Blumberg

Chapter 13. The Use of Learning-centred Teaching Constructs in Our Asian Context. The Less Traditional Constructs: Balance of Power and Development of Student Responsibility for Learning
Lynette Tan & Phyllis Blumberg

Chapter 14. Institutional Infrastructure and Support for Learning-Centred Teaching and Faculty Development
Phyllis Blumberg & Chng Huang Hoon

Chapter 15. Suggestions for Your Successful Transitions to Learning-Centred Teaching
Phyllis Blumberg, Daniel Jew & Lynette Tan

Chapter 16. Conclusion. Learning-Centred Teaching: Lessons learned for the Path Forward in Asia and Beyond
Phyllis Blumberg, Lynette Tan & Daniel Jew

Volume References

Glossary

Appendix

Index