Prerequisites of Learning from Various Means and Aim Perspectives

In the previous chapter, we suggested that in institutionalised processes of learning we are dealing with a multiple aim/means structure. Means and aims actualise themselves in concrete practices and can be viewed from a teacher as well as a student persp

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Dealing with Conceptualisations of Learning Learning between Means and Aims in Theory and Practice

Edited by Ane Qvortrup University of Southern Denmark, Denmark and Merete Wiberg Aarhus University, Denmark

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Learning between Means and Aims Ane Qvortrup and Merete Wiberg

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2. Prerequisites of Learning from Various Means and Aim Perspectives Merete Wiberg and Ane Qvortrup

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3. On Learning (How) to Learn Oliver Kauffmann, Merete Wiberg and Christopher Winch

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4. Practical Emotions in the Processes of Learning Søren Engelsen

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5. Motivation, Learning, and the Educational Dialogue Klaus Nielsen

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6. Learning Objectives as Frameworks and Resources in Upper Secondary Education: Between Means and Aims Ane Qvortrup and Hanne Fie Rasmussen

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7. The Didactics of Group Work: Between Means and Aims in Theory and Practice Gerd Christensen

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8. Formative Reformulations in Interventions on School Development: A Longitudinal Case Study of a Project on Student Note-Writing Torben Spanget Christensen

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9. A Luhmann-Inspired Approach to Include Neuroscientific Knowledge Concerning Adolescents’ Motivation for Learning in High School Instruction107 Nadja Marie Mariager 10. Patterns of Participation: A Participatory Account of Learning to Teach Jeppe Skott

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About the Authors

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ANE QVORTRUP AND MERETE WIBERG

1. LEARNING BETWEEN MEANS AND AIMS

INTRODUCTION

An increased political and professional interest in learning has manifested itself in a shift from content-based to outcome-based curricula and in an increased focus on evidence-informed teaching. Within schools, among teachers and in the overall field of education, the paradigmatic shift from content-based to outcome-based curricula has been followed by enhanced interest in, as well as debate about, how learning outcomes are operationalised into learning objectives or targets in study regulations and syllabus/lesson plans, and in formalised assessment of learning. The political focus on evidence-informed teaching and learning has manifested itself in an enhanced focus on the quality of teaching and teaching methods, including an interest in a summative assessment of learning. Educational resear