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Student-Centered Learning Environments in Higher Education Classrooms

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Authors:
  1. Sabine Hoidn

    1. St. Gallen, Switzerland

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  • Proposes a model for student-centered learning in higher education
  • Utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to course design and classroom interaction
  • Presents ethnographic case studies of the student-centered classroom model in the US

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Sabine Hoidn
    Pages 1-21

  3. Constructivist Foundations and Common Design Principles of Student-Centered Learning Environments

    • Sabine Hoidn
    Pages 23-103

  4. Empirical Education Research on the Effectiveness and Quality of Learning and Instruction

    • Sabine Hoidn
    Pages 105-167

  5. Multiple Ethnographic Case Study Research of Student-Centered Learning Environments in Higher Education Classrooms

    • Sabine Hoidn
    Pages 169-220

  6. Characteristic Curricular Design Elements and (Deeper-Level) Quality Features of the Student-Centered Classrooms Under Study

    • Sabine Hoidn
    Pages 221-340

  7. Situative Educational Model for the Design of Powerful Student-Centered Learning Environments

    • Sabine Hoidn
    Pages 341-409

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 411-453
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About this book

This book aims to develop a situative educational model to guide the design and implementation of powerful student-centered learning environments in higher education classrooms. Rooted in educational science, Hoidn contributes knowledge in the fields of general pedagogy, and more specifically, higher education learning and instruction. The text will support instructors, curriculum developers, faculty developers, administrators, and educational managers from all disciplines in making informed instructional decisions with regard to course design, classroom interaction, and community building and is also of relevance to educators from other formal and informal educational settings aside from higher education. 

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“Student-Centered Learning Environments in Higher Education Classrooms makes important contributions to our understanding. It will support instructors, curriculum developers, faculty developers, administrators, and educational managers from all disciplines in making informed instructional decisions with regard to course design, classroom interaction, and community building and is also of relevance to educators from other formal and informal educational settings aside from higher education.” (SirReadaLot.org, May, 2017)

“Hoidn’s book presents an overdue scholarly work investigating how instruct­ors can design and bring to life student-centered learning environments. The developed educati­on­al model constitutes a significant and comprehensive contribution to higher education learning and instruction, tying empirical findings, namely authentic participati­on-oriented educati­onal practices, to existing state-of-the-art research on constructivist learning and instruction. The detailed findings support higher education faculty, curriculum and faculty developers and administrators in making informed instructional decisions to scaffold deep learning.” (Rolf Dubs, Professor Emeritus, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland)

“This book, in a bravura way, relates theoretical models with case study research and learning practice itself. This is, without debate, an exceptionally seminal reading for anybody who intends to create high quality student-centered classroom environments.” (Martin Hejnala, Department of OP Management, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Czech Republic)

Authors and Affiliations

  • St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Sabine Hoidn

About the author

Sabine Hoidn is Postdoctoral Researcher in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Student-Centered Learning Environments in Higher Education Classrooms

  • Authors: Sabine Hoidn

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94941-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-349-94940-3Published: 29 October 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95680-7Published: 16 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-94941-0Published: 28 October 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 453

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Curriculum Studies

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