Teaching and Learning in an Expanding Higher Education System (the MacFarlane Report)

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ID4098464
AuthorsDavid Hartley (0000-0003-2589-2538, University of Dundee, corresponding author)
Year1995
Volume20
Issue2
Pages147-158
Publication date1995-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueStudies in Higher Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03075079512331381663
OpenAlexW2029594816
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited15

Teaching and Learning in an Expanding Higher Education System (the MacFarlane Report) provides a set of recommendations which will allow for a much-expanded provision in higher education. Though produced in Scotland, it suggests the way forward nationally in Britain. The ‘new role ̊s for higher education which it advocates is decidedly instrumental. It proposes a new pedagogy for higher education which has much to do with the ‘new pedagogy ̊s seen during the 1980s in further education. This flexible, learner-centred pedagogy is assumed in the Report to be compatible with computer-based media. In this sense, the Report accords with the emergent discourse of flexible capitalism and post-modernist culture. On the other hand, the Report recommends an over-arching teaching and learning board which may do much to co-ordinate and systematise not just the pedagogical means but also the curricular content of higher education. In that systematising sense, the Report is a product of the modern (not postmodern) mind, being replete with a Taylorist discourse of quality control

Epistemology · Higher education · Management · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Postmodernism · Sociology · Computer Science · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law · Philosophy · Psychology

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