title: The application of student-centred learning approaches to clinical education.
abstract: This paper explores current thinking on adult learning and discusses its application to the clinical education of speech and language therapy students. It is based on evidence from a two-year project funded by the Trent Regional Consortium, which is trialling an innovative means of providing paediatric placements. The educational literature has recognised for some time the importance of student-centred teaching and learning and has encouraged movement away from a didactic teacher-student model to one where students are seen as active in the learning process. This paper offers a model as to how these principles may be applied to clinical placements to promote self-directed lifelong learning and to prepare speech and language therapists to meet the challenges of continuing professional development and the ever-changing working environment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Communication Sciences, University of Sheffield, 31 Claremont Crescent, Sheffield. s.k.Baxter@sheffield.ac.uk
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Baxter
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gray
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D018794:Problem-Based Learning / Q000379:methods*; D013066:Speech-Language Pathology / Q000193:education*