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050			_aT166.S7 _bC37 2013
100			_aCase, Jennifer M.
245			_aResearching student learning in higher education : _ba social realist approach / _cJennifer M. Case.
260			_aAbingdon, Oxon : _bRoutledge/Taylor & Francis Group, _c2013.
300			_axii, 155 pages _btables ; _c24 cm.
490			_aResearch into higher education
520			_a"Many contemporary concerns in higher education focus on the student experience of learning, battling with the dual concerns of a larger and much more diverse intake than ever before and the limitation of funding; questions are being asked afresh around the purposes of higher education. As much as the central questions in higher education focus on student enrolment in programmes, student retention, progression and success, graduate fitness for work, the actual student tends to be absent in so much of this rhetoric and even scholarly literature. The central questions are then of grading, selection, conversion and efficiency but these analyses have not really yielded much apart from providing some indication that the system is hugely inefficient. This book turns this conversation on its head, by inserting a full consideration of student participation into the context of higher education. Working sociologically, it explores the influence of the social context on what the individual student achieves. It utilises a social realist approach to researching student learning, illustrating its potential value by a detailed exploration of student learning within one particular discipline: engineering education "-- _bProvided by publisher.
650			_aEngineering _vCase studies. _xStudy and teaching (Higher) _zSouth Africa
650			_aCollege students _vCase studies. _xSocial conditions _zSouth Africa
650			_aAcademic achievement _vCase studies. _xSocial aspects _zSouth Africa
650			_aEDUCATION / General.
650			_aEDUCATION / Higher.
650			_aEDUCATION / Students & Student Life.
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