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V. Foreign Higher Education and Education Systems, International Relations, Bilateral Relations
B. Essays, Commentaries, Statements
Author KEMBER, David
Title Is it the teaching or the discipline? : influences at disciplinary epistemology and pedagogy on students adapting study behaviour and epistemological beliefs / David Kember ...
Publication year 2014
Source/Footnote In: European journal of higher education. - 4 (2014) 4, S. 348 - 362
Inventory number 37283
Keywords Ausland : Hongkong : Studentenschaft, Studium, Lehre ; Studentenschaft : Studienverhalten
Abstract This study examined the pace and degree of adaptation of study behaviour and personal epistemological beliefs between school and university through interviews with 110 final-year university students. The study took place in Hong Kong, where the highly competitive school system encourages remembering modelling answers for the public examinations; hence, students appear to hold naive epistemological beliefs on entry to university. Developing more sophisticated beliefs appeared to be a pre- or co- requisite to adopting study behaviour more appropriate for university study. The pace and degree of adaptation varied between disciplines and appeared to be influenced by both the nature of knowledge within a discipline and the type of pedagogy adopted. The influences are discussed in terms of a two-by-two framework, ranging from well-established to contested knowledge, and didactic teaching to active student engagement. Cases are given to illustrate each quadrant as well as progressive development. Perceptions or social constructions of disciplinary differences appear to play a part as there were cases where the pedagogy adopted was inconsistent with the nature of knowledge in a discipline. (HRK / Abstract übernommen)