Reflecting Critically On Our Efforts To Improve Teaching and Learning

professionals act to solve the problems they have set for themselves. Peter Senge, in The Fifth Discipline, introduces the ideas of "mental models " and "learning horizons " to describe learning in organiza-tions. These ideas form the basis of a critical analysis of efforts to improve the quality of teaching and learning in higher education over the last 25 years. (An earlier version of this paper was presented a