Discipline-Centred Learning: An Integrative Model for Medical Undergraduate Education

Abstract

Traditionally, education had been teacher centred. With the 1) availability of resources of knowledge other than the teacher, 2) industrialisation of education where student is the client; and 3) emergence of more individualised needs and preferences of the students in the industry, the term learnercentred education (also called student-centred learning) has gained popularity in many countries including Sri Lanka (Schweisfurth, 2011; Spencer & Jordan, 1999). Among other limitations of implementing in the developing countries (Schweisfurth, 2011), studentcentred learning does not specify who pays for the education of the student, or to what profession the students are trained to when it applies to higher educational institutions.