The Student of Today: Some student's and Teachers' Conceptions of the Characteristics of a Good Student
2013 (English)In: Inside the New University: Prerequisites for a Contemporary Knowledge Production / [ed] Editor(s): Kristina Johansson, Göran Lassbo and Eddy Nehls, Bentham Publishers , 2013, 1, , p. 11p. 3-13Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
In Sweden today, there is an intensive debate discussing the changing conditions within higher education, one of the major issues is the one of meeting a new student cohort, i.e. millenials, or the generation Y students, etc. But what if the problem may not be the new students entering the university but the fact that we have to adjust to a new order ? Barnett, (2004) argues that we have to educate for a new work life. Implying that the students need to develop skills that are functioning in the world we live in right now. Bowden and Marton (1998) are talking about being able to transfer knowledge to new situations. Whilst Weiler ( 2005) argues that we have to meet the new cohort with new educational methods. Students of today are more visual learners, and we have to design for that in order to make the education meaningful.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Bentham Publishers , 2013, 1. , p. 11p. 3-13
Keywords [en]
New University, Higher Education, Student, Teacher, Teacher Role, Conceptions, Generation X, X-ers, Digital Natives, Millennials, Good Student, Instrumentalization, Discourse, Changing Conditions, New Generation., Work-integrated learning, WIL
Keywords [sv]
AIL
National Category
Learning
Research subject
Work Integrated Learning; SOCIAL SCIENCE, Pedagogics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-5812DOI: 10.2174/97816080572691130101ISBN: 978-1-60805-726-9 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-5812DiVA, id: diva2:680705
2013-12-182013-12-182019-11-26Bibliographically approved