Jennifer M Case

Researching Student Learning in Higher Education

A social realist approach

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780415662345
• ISBN-10: 0415662346
• Artikelnr.: 37649286

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Case is a professor, with a particular focus on academic development, in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Setting the Scene 1. Contemporary Chellanges in Higher Education 2.
Researching Student Learning: Accounting for structure and agency Part II:
A Theoretical Framework 3. Critical realism as philosophical function 4.
Realist Social Theiry: Archer's morphogentic approach 5. A Socialist
Realist Perspective on Knowledge and Curriculum 6. Conceptualising Student
Agency Part III: Developing a Case Study in Engineering Education 7.
Geographical Context for the Study: Locating UCT Chemical Engineering 8.
Disciplinary Context for the Study: Locating engineering education 9.
Choosing Engineering 10. Studying Engineering- defining your project 11.
Studying Engineering - engaging with others 12. Studying Engineering - the
knowledge project 13. Conclusions for the Case Study Part IV: Drawing the
Strands Together 14. A Social Realist Approach to Research on Student
Learning