1st Edition

Learning to Learn in Higher Education

By Jean Wright Copyright 1982
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1982, Learning to Learn in Higher Education analyses the factors that govern effective student learning and looks at the way that these can be improved by changing the way that courses are administered. It examines preparation for higher education and the effect of school systems on the individual student. In acknowledging the academic importance of motivation, maturity... Read more

Acknowledgments

Preface

1. The Models of Pre-University Learning

2. Different Styles of Learning in Higher Education and their Effect on the Students

3. The Criteria for ‘Learning to Learn’

4. Individual and Group Methods

5. Improving Learning Competence – with Particular Reference to the University of Reading

6. The Problem for Overseas Students and for the Institutions Where They Study

7. Students with Specialised Learning Difficulties

8. Change in the Individual

9. Change in Higher Education Institutions

Conclusions

Appendix I

Appendix II

Appendix III

Appendix IV

Appendix V

Appendix VI

Biography

Jean Wright