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Clarence, Sherran – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
Students' ability to build knowledge, and transfer it within and between contexts is crucial to cumulative learning and to academic success. This has long been a concern of higher education research and practice. A central part of this concern for educators is creating the conditions that enable their students' deep learning, as this is an area of…
Descriptors: Legal Education (Professions), Undergraduate Students, Teaching Methods, Semantics
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Zepke, Nick – Higher Education Research and Development, 2015
Student engagement is highly visible in higher education research about learning and teaching, but lacks a single meaning. It can be conceived narrowly as a set of student and institutional behaviours in a classroom or holistically and critically as a social-cultural ecosystem in which engagement is the glue linking classroom, personal background…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Educational Research, Criticism, Student Participation
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Entwistle, Noel – Higher Education Research and Development, 1997
Defines and describes phenomenography as a research methodology, and argues for its utility in examining aspects of higher education. Reviews research in higher education using the phenomenographic approach, outlines cautions in using it, and discusses alternative explanations offered in the debate over phenomenography. Previews a series of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Definitions, Educational Research, Higher Education