| Further improving the quality of college teaching is of great significance in the era of popularization of higher education in China. The Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) program introduced from Canada has achieved good results in teaching improvement and faculty development in post-secondary institutions in China, with the "learner's perspective feedback" being an important feature of the program. Based on on-site observations of the workshop, interviews with participants and analysis of teaching materials, this study finds that the role of the learner's perspective feedback in improving the teaching ability of faculty is mainly reflected in: training participants to "develop the eyes to see students", providing diverse meaning-makings for teaching, stimulating instructors' willingness to improve teaching, discovering the charm of teaching and the abundance of professional life, and building cross-boundary learning communities. By integrating Biesta's "weak education" thought, Argyris' action science theory, and Levinas' ethical theory of the other, this study comes to the following three conclusions: (1) as a form of weak education, the "learner's perspective feedback" simultaneously inspires the subjectivity of the learners and the teachers; (2) an equal and open group atmosphere reduces interpersonal defense and competition; (3) the instructors' positive responses to the learners' needs and requests make themselves responsible subjects. |
