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Patterns of Learning

Spokes, Chains, Nets and Disciplines

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Curriculum design that focuses heavily on learning outcomes (see for example, Hussey & Smith, 2008) does not necessarily provide sufficient focus on the learning trajectories used by students to achieve the outcomes. Therefore, some students may arrive at a given outcome via a direct route whilst others may have taken a more circuitous journey to arrive at the same place.

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Kinchin, I.M. (2016). Patterns of Learning. In: Visualising Powerful Knowledge to Develop the Expert Student. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-627-9_3

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