From Learner-centeredness to Client-orientedness: Quality Education through Augmented Learner Satisfaction

Though learner-centered education (LCE) has been around since quite long ago, due to its fuzzy nature, it appears that in recent years it has been more of a conundrum than a straightforward roadmap for implementing quality education. This aura of complication and indistinctness surrounding LCE gets even more horrendous when novice teachers are pushed toward applying LCE in their classes, but are not sufficiently trained how to do so. In an attempt to disentangle such intricacies lying at the heart of learner-centered pedagogy, the researcher in the current workshop introduces client-orientedness as an interface between entirely learner-centered and teacher-led systems. In so doing, some handy tips are going to be put forth, hands-on, practicable guidelines be offered, and tangible audience-friendly steps be presented, through highlighting new advances in educational psychology, particularly in the light of latest theories of motivation, classroom management and interaction.