"Hand holding" and trying to teach students to love learning, and is that really part of our job as adult educators. Along the same lines, is it our job to teach our students to be more self aware of how they learn or should we expect them to know that as adults?
Nowadays team-teaching is greatly emphasized in teaching in order to eliminate hand-holding within the context of Teacher-Learner relationship.
In relations to this matter specifically, there are various curriculum models that have come into use recently more commonly: Information Processing Models, Personal Models, Social Interaction Models and Behavioral Models in curriculum development are of utmost importance when it comes to teaching students establishing awareness towards their own learning. i.e. to take ownership of their learning process.
The other interesting factor which I have read about in another text is : How we view learning? Is learning a social or is it individual? I believe often in fact, it can be perceived to be both.
Reference
Miller. J.P., & Seller, W., (1990). Curriculum Perspectives & Practice, Longman Group Ltd., London
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