Introduction to the Philosophical Arguments Underpinning Personalised Education

Abstract

This chapter introduces understandings of the concept of personalised learning, as distinct from individualised and differentiated learning, in the context of electronically mediated higher education learning and teaching. We begin a conversation that is revisited across the book about the role of teacher and the role of student and their interactions across the three modes of e-mediated learning. We identify and explain the theoretical construct of Jürgen Habermas' modes of knowing as a lens from which to explore personalised learning in electronically mediated higher education contexts. And, we begin to situate ourselves as educators in the academy at this time.