Resumen de Teaching Less and Learning More? ‐ a Personal Experience
The main method of teaching in higher education in Great Britain is identified as the lecture. It is argued that this is inappropriate because of its failure to engender the higher order skills which are demanded by present day society. The pressures which maintain the use of didactic teaching are identified as the physical and financial constraints of the institution, the methods of assessment used in courses, and the identification of the teacher with the subject rather than the process of teaching and learning. None of these pressures are seen as insurmountable, and the process of change is viewed as one which is largely to be instigated by the teaching staff through the introduction of more student‐centred methods.
