This article focuses on the surprising lack of critique in the pedagogical literatures of higher
education in relation to the use of ideas surrounding deep and surface approaches to …

" The first edition of Researching Higher Education has been a very helpful resource for
those trying to make sense of the field of higher education. Malcolm Tight has accomplished …

Whether or not the discipline of English Literature is 'in crisis' is something we consider right
at the start of this book. But if not in crisis, it is certainly a discipline in the process of marked …

This research focuses on understanding how socio-psychological dimensions such as
student social identity and student perceptions of their learning community affect learning at …

Engagement has been studied as a multidimensional construct consisting of three subtypes:
behavioral, cognitive, and emotional (Fredricks, Blumenfeld, & Paris, 2004). Among these …

Introduction. Guided by the work of Bandura on self-efficacy, this study seeks to determine
the extent to which differences in students' expectations of higher education could be …

Many countries now employ national evaluation systems to demonstrate publicly that
universities provide a quality education. However, the current processes of quality …

It is suggested that the pedagogical implications of the British government's policies of
widening access and increasing participation have not yet been widely explored in the …

The present study investigated relationships between students' conceptions of constructivist
learning on the one hand, and their regulation and processing strategies on the other hand …

As a result of its importance to the discipline's identity and epistemology, the nature of
fieldwork and the fieldtrip itself have recently come under close scrutiny in the education and …