Guest Speaker: John Tagg
John Tagg is professor of English at Palomar College, where he has taught since 1982. He is co-author, with Robert Barr, of “From Teaching to Learning: A New Paradigm for Higher Education,” which appeared in the November-December 1995 issue of Change magazine. This is “arguably the most widely cited piece that Change ever published,” according to Peter Ewell, editor of Change. It sparked a nationwide discussion of the meaning and mission of higher education.
In The Learning Paradigm College (Anker Publications, 2003), he advances and develops the case for the Learning Paradigm. It describes a research-based approach to redesigning higher education in the service of student learning and provides detailed examples of colleges and universities that exemplify aspects of the Learning Paradigm. According to Russell Edgerton, director of the Pew Forum on Undergraduate Learning, “this remarkable book takes the national conversation about taking learning seriously to a new level." Betsy Barefoot, co-director, and John Gardner, executive director of the Policy Center on the First Year of College say, “This book is one of the most important, provocative, and accessible works to have entered the higher education literature in many years. . . .” And Charles Muscatine, emeritus professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley, says it “is one of the very greatest books on higher education that I have ever read. . . .”
Mr. Tagg has made presentations and conducted workshops for dozens of campuses and professional organizations over the past decade. Recently, he has worked with the Pew Forum on Undergraduate Learning and has published further work on higher education reform in About Campus, The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education, Change and On the Horizon. His most recent article is “Double-Loop Learning in Higher Education,” which appeared in Change, July/August 2007.
Contact Information:
E-mail: jtagg@cox.net
Telephone: Office-(760) 744-1150, ext. 2396
Home: (858) 759-9872
For more information go to:
From Teaching to Learning—
A New Paradigm for Undergraduate Education (pdf)
By Robert B. Barr and John Tagg