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  title info:
    title: Researching student learning in higher education
    sub title: a social realist approach
  name:
    name part: Case, Jennifer M.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Ebook Library
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 155 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: "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 "--
  table of contents: Part I Setting the scene; 1 Contemporary challenges in higher education; 2 Researching student learning: accounting for structure and agency; Part II Building a theoretical framework; 3 Critical realism as philosophical foundation; 4 Realist social theory: Archer's morphogenetic approach; 5 A social realist perspective on knowledge and curriculum; 6 Conceptualising student agency.
  table of contents: 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; Bibliography; Index.
  note: Jennifer M. Case.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliography and index.
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
    topic: Study and teaching (Higher)
    geographic: South Africa
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: College students
    geographic: South Africa
    topic: Social conditions
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Academic achievement
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: South Africa
    genre: Case studies
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Researching student learning in higher education: A social realist approach
    name:
      name part: Case, Jennifer M.
    origin info:
      publisher: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2013
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Research into higher education (SRHE)
  identifier: 9781135120764 (ebook)
  identifier: 9780415662345 (hbk)
  identifier: 9780415662352 (pbk)
  identifier: 9780203797402 (ebk)
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 130810
    record change date: 20250816203623.6
    record identifier: in00003454146
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng