When I was in school we did book reports. They weren't learner centered then, and so I am wondering how they become learner centered today. So also with some of the other learning activities listed in this document: drill and practice, field trip, test and quiz. Learner-centered, it seems to me, becomes something different when viewed through the lens of instruction. How, for example, is this a principle of learner-centred learning? "Explicit outcomes are given; the purpose of each activity is also made explicit, and clear instructions are provided for carrying out each activity." There are two ways of looking at this: learner-centered as attending to the needs of the student, but where the decisions are still made by the instructor; and learner-centered as being where the decisions are made by the student. I am in favour of the latter, and see the former more as paternalism than anything else.
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