ABSTRACT

The personalising of learning, which means putting the student or learner at the heart of the educative process, has always been the essence of effective teaching and of lifelong learning (Fisher 2005). It has a moral basis in the fact that education is about persons in all aspects of their humanity, not just bundles of specific gifts and talents, but people in their wholeness, including the physical, emotional, intellectual, social and economic aspects of their being. Students need to be inducted into knowledge about the world but also into an understanding of themselves as persons of particular gifts and talents. To be fully educated, students need more than individual learning. They need what will be defined here as ‘personalised learning’.