What Have We Been Thinking of? A Critical Overview of 40 Years of Student Learning Research in Higher Education

Autor/in	Haggis, Tamsin
Titel	What Have We Been Thinking of? A Critical Overview of 40 Years of Student Learning Research in Higher Education
Quelle	In: Studies in Higher Education, 34 (2009) 4, S.377-390 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0307-5079
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Sociolinguistics; Research Methodology; Academic Achievement; Sociology; Psychology; Adult Education; Cognitive Processes; Cognitive Psychology; Foreign Countries; Outcomes of Education; Lifelong Learning; Social Environment; Epistemology; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Soziolinguistik; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Schulleistung; Soziologie; Psychologie; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Kognitive Psychologie; Ausland; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen; Soziales Umfeld; Erkenntnistheorie; Großbritannien
Abstract	This article is a response to a request to consider the following three questions in relation to the recent history of research into student learning in higher education: What do we know?, What do we need to know?, and What might we do about it? A survey of article titles reporting on research into student learning was carried out in three key higher education journals, and the results of this were then considered in the context of other, related research perspectives. The article will first report on the results of this review, and then discuss these results in the context of theoretical moves in psychology and sociology over the same period of time. The trends identified in the higher education journals will then be compared to research into student learning in higher education which is published in two other disciplinary areas: adult education and sociolinguistics. After raising some questions that arise from these comparisons, the final section of the article will outline some suggestions about ways in which higher education researchers might begin to "think differently" about learning and research in this field. (Contains 2 figures and 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10