Researching Student Learning in Higher Education - Jennifer M. Case

Many contemporary concerns in higher education focus on the student experience of learning.With a larger and much more diverse intake than ever before linked with a declining unit of resource questions are being asked afresh around the purposes of higher education. Although much of the debate is currently focused on issues of student access and success a simple input-output model of higher education is insufficient. This book turns this conversation on its head by inserting a full consideration of student agency into the context of higher education.Working sociologically it explores the influence of the social context on what the individual student achieves. The theoretical tenets of a social realist approach are laid out in detail in the book; the potential value of this approach is then illustrated by a case study of student learning in engineering education.Employing Margaret Archer's social realist theory an analysis of student narratives is used to work towards a realist understanding of the underlying mechanisms that constrain and enable student success.Building on this analysis the book develops a novel set of proposals for potential ways forward in improving student learning in higher education.

TITLE: Researching Student Learning in Higher Education

AUTHOR: Jennifer M. Case

SKU: 9780415662352

PUBLISHER: Taylor & Francis Ltd

DATE PUBLISHED: 09/08/2013

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 156

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 159 mm x 235 mm

WEIGHT: 272 gr