Theorising Personalised Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Introduction to the Philosophical Arguments Underpinning Personalised Education

   • Barbara Garrick, Donna Pendergast, David Geelan

   Pages 1-16

3. A Brief History of E-mediated Education

   • Barbara Garrick, Donna Pendergast, David Geelan

   Pages 17-25

4. Personalised Learning, Pedagogy, and E-mediated Tools

   • Barbara Garrick, Donna Pendergast, David Geelan

   Pages 27-46

5. Through the Lens of Generational Theory

   • Barbara Garrick, Donna Pendergast, David Geelan

   Pages 47-60

6. Personalised Education, Pedagogy, and Equity in the Higher Education Sector

   • Barbara Garrick, Donna Pendergast, David Geelan

   Pages 61-81

7. Personalised or Programmed? Current Practices of University Systems

   • Barbara Garrick, Donna Pendergast, David Geelan

   Pages 83-93

8. From Policy to Practice—Personalisation and the Higher Education Sector

   • Barbara Garrick, Donna Pendergast, David Geelan

   Pages 95-106

9. Experiencing E-mediated Personalised Learning in Practice—A Teacher’s Insight

   • Barbara Garrick, Donna Pendergast, David Geelan

   Pages 107-121

10. E-mediated Approaches to Personalising Inter-professional Learning in the Health Sector

    • Barbara Garrick, Donna Pendergast, David Geelan

    Pages 123-143

11. Evidence in Relation to the Effectiveness of E-mediated Personalised Education

    • Barbara Garrick, Donna Pendergast, David Geelan

    Pages 145-151

12. Back Matter

    Pages 153-155

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This book examines the theoretical underpinning of the concept of personalised education and explores the question: What is personalised education in the contemporary higher education sector and how is it implemented?  A broad, sophisticated definition of personalised learning has the potential to serve as a basis for more effective educational practices. The term ‘personalised education’ is, and continues to be, one with a variety of definitions. The authors’ definition both incorporates earlier concepts of personalised education and critically reassesses them. The book then adds a further dimension: personalised instruction in electronically mediated environments, where the goal is to achieve learning towards mastery individually with the help of differentiated and individualised electronic learning platforms. This book assesses the various arguments concerning personalised education, examining each through the lens of educational theory and pedagogy and subsequently positing a number of qualitative characteristics of personalised education that have the potential to influence policy and practices in the higher education sector.

• Alternative education agenda
• Australian Higher Education
• Barbara Garrick
• Basil Bernstein
• David Geelan
• Donna Pendergast
• Educational change
• Innovation not mastery
• Innovative education agenda
• Learning theory
• Neoliberal education agenda
• Personalised instruction
• Productive pedagogies
• e-mediated learning environments
• e-technology
• learning and instruction

• Griffith University , Gold Coast, Australia

  Barbara Garrick, David Geelan

• Griffith University , Mt Gravatt, Australia

  Donna Pendergast

Barbara Garrick (1953—2015) was a loving wife to Mal, proud mum to Kylie, and devoted grandmother to Connor. She was an intrepid world traveller, and family historian. Barb was an imaginative and innovative teacher, a generous colleague and a researcher dedicated to reform, with interests in the areas of educational policy and practice, teaching students in the middle years, and researching academic work conditions, diversity, teacher identity and literacy, amongst others. Barb was an absolute joy to be with, and will be remembered by many with great admiration, affection and love. She is greatly missed.

Donna Pendergast is Jeff’s wife and mum to Kyrra, who as a young teenager, is providing daily insights into the digital capacities of the amazing young people in our world today. Donna is a keen walker, and although these days it is mostly around office buildings, in the past she has powered her way through several world class walking challenges. She has a lengthy bucket list to walk her way through. Now Dean of the School of Education and Professional Studies, Donna began her career as a secondary school teacher. She comes from a family that places considerable value on the transformative potential of education and her aspirations have been shaped by these beliefs. 

David Geelan is Sue’s husband and Cassie and Alex’s dad. He reads plenty of crime and science fiction novels, rides a motorcycle and probably spends more time playing computer games than he can really afford. David started teaching high school science and maths in 1989 and has been a school teacher in three Australian states and a teacher educator in Papua New Guinea, Canada and Australia. In 1995, during his doctoral studies, David developed and taught his first online course, and he has had a research interest in e-mediated higher education ever since. In 2005 he was a Scholar at the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

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