ABSTRACT
Consider these six questions as the basis for interrogating the balance of responsibility and involvement between teachers and students within the teaching and learning cycle:
Who decides what is to be taught and learned, and on what basis are such decisions made?
Who determines the starting point of the teaching, and on what evidence?
Who decides how the learning is to be organized: what teaching and learning methods are to be employed?
Who provides, describes and exemplifies the criteria for success in this learning, when is this done and how?
Who is responsible for the assessment: when and how is it done?
Who records the outcomes: where, when and for what purpose?
(Lambert and Lines 2000: 126)