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Ashwin, Paul; Blackie, Margaret; Pitterson, Nicole; Smit, Reneé – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
Are the ways of engaging with the world that students develop through higher education particular to bodies of knowledge they study? In this article, we examine how students' accounts of the discipline of chemistry in England and South Africa changed over the three years of their undergraduate degrees. Based on a longitudinal phenomenographic…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Knowledge Level, Longitudinal Studies, Molecular Structure
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Gunter, Helen M. – International Perspectives on Higher Education Research (MS), 2012
The university as a site of public intellectuals and intellectual work is facing challenge. Historically this has happened and continues apace through the inter-relationship of a number of trends: first, the entry of disciplines into bureaucratic specialisation, where status is through a named school, disciplinary paradigms and networks, journals…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Interests, Middle Class, Beliefs
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers