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V. Foreign Higher Education and Education Systems, International Relations, Bilateral Relations
B. Essays, Commentaries, Statements
Author CHENG, Ming
Title Quality as transformation : educational metamorphosis / Ming Cheng
Publication year 2014
Source/Footnote In: Quality in higher education. - 20 (2014) 3, S. 272 - 289
Inventory number 37434
Keywords Ausland : Großbritannien : einzelne Hochschulen ; Ausland : Großbritannien : Studium, Studenten, Lehre
Abstract The notion of ?quality as transformation? has been widely used in the higher education sector. However, both quality and transformation are elusive terms. There is little research exploring how quality could be equated to transformation in the learning process. This paper will provide an insight into the relationship between quality and transformation at doctoral level. Using data from interviews with 32 PhD supervisors and students in two English universities and the outcomes of a collage-making workshop, this paper will reveal how student transformation was perceived as relating to quality learning. Transformation was described as involving five forms of development: intellectual, critical, personal, emotional and physical. Quality was perceived as goodness and interviewees used the term ?value? to express their expectation of something valuable and meaningful.(HRK / Abstract übernommen)