Postgraduate Course: Understanding Learning and Studying (EDUA11178)
Course Outline
| School | Moray House School of Education |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | Against the backcloth of consideration of the distinctive aims and outcomes of higher education, this unit provides a critical introduction to contrasting approaches to conceptualising learning and studying at university level. The perspectives surveyed are drawn from cognitive psychology; grounded and phenomenographic studies of students' experiences of learning and studying and perceptions of undergraduate courses as teaching-learning environments; and undergraduate learning as participation in discourse communities. The unit focuses on what insights can be gleaned from these differing perspectives that can inform day-to-day teaching-learning practices. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of the unit, programme participants will have:
- acquainted themselves with the principal conceptual frameworks and perspectives deployed in understanding learning and studying in higher education
- reviewed the implications of discipline and subject differences for undergraduate learning and studying
- drawn critically upon different conceptual perspectives to enhance their grasp of learning and studying in their own discipline or subject area
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Special Arrangements |
Pre-course reading, in-course reading and follow-up reading as well as assignment preparation complement face-to-face teaching/learning activities to a total of 100 notional effort hours. |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Carolin Kreber
Tel: (0131 6)51 6668
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Course secretary | Miss Emily Salvesen
Tel: (0131 6)51 6661
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