Learning power: Taking learning-centredness seriously in a blended learning environment

The focus of this chapter is the ‘in-practice’ struggle between two educational paradigms, one that says learning needs to be explicit and rigorous and is therefore teacher-centred and the other that learning needs to be based on the needs and interests of the student and is therefore learner-centred. We suggest that a teacher-centred paradigm still dominates in contemporary education in a variety of ways, despite some claims to the contrary