A STUDY ON STUDENT CENTRIC MODEL FOLLOWED BY UNIVERSITIES WITH REFERENCE TO STUDENTS OF MANGALORE

The term student–centered learning describes the shift in power from the expert teacher to the student learner, driven by a need for a change in the traditional environment where in this ‗socalled educational atmosphere, students become passive, apathetic and bored‘. In the College system, the concept of Student–centered education has been derived, in particular, from the idea that the teacher should not ‗interfere with this process of maturation, but act as a guide‘. It was highlighted that this was linked with the process of development or ‗readiness‘, i.e., the student will learn when he/she is ready. Through this paper made an attempt to study how student centric model affected learning style of students in Mangalore. In this study both direct interview and secondary data has been taken into consideration.