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Direct linkLucas, Ursula; Tan, Phaik Leng – Teaching in Higher Education, 2014
This study aims to identify how students' epistemological beliefs or ways of knowing (comprising cognitive, intrapersonal and interpersonal aspects) develop during work-based placement. Data comprise 32 semi-structured interviews with 17 business and accounting students at a UK university. Findings show that the taking of responsibility is the key…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Accounting, Business Administration Education, Foreign Countries
Lucas, Ursula; Tan, Phaik Leng – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
The development of a capacity to engage in critical reflection is central to higher education. However, students vary in this capacity and its development requires students to move from an absolute towards a contextual way of knowing. Using 32 semi-structured interviews, this study identifies the ways of knowing of 17 business and accounting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Epistemology, Semi Structured Interviews
Lucas, Ursula; Mladenovic, Rosina – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2009
Insights into students' understandings of disciplinary concepts are fundamental to effective curriculum development. This paper argues that a rounded picture of students' understandings is required to support such development. It is argued that one element of this picture may be provided through the use of the Structure of Observed Learning…
Descriptors: Accounting, Introductory Courses, Classification, Comprehension
Lucas, Ursula; Mladenovic, Rosina – London Review of Education, 2007
This paper explores the notion of a "threshold concept" and discusses its possible implications for higher education research and practice. Using the case of introductory accounting as an illustration, it is argued that the idea of a threshold concept provides an emerging theoretical framework for a "re-view" of educational…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Practices
Lucas, Ursula; Meyer, Jan H. F. – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2004
The present study is concerned with how educators might support students in developing a better awareness and understanding of themselves as learners. The context for the paper is widening participation within higher education and the growth of first-year 'introductory' modules, which are taught to large numbers of students, including both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Knowledge Level
Lucas, Ursula; Cox, Paul; Croudace, Christopher; Milford, Peter – Teaching in Higher Education, 2004
Bennett et al. (2000) refer to the notion of 'core skills' as an 'unfulfilled concept' (p. 48). Thus it is possible that different interpretations and values at the level of actual degree programmes may be hidden within this term. This study enquires into students' tacit notions of skills development within a specific degree programme and at a…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Personality Traits, Skill Development, Higher Education
