'Read a hundred times and the meaning will appear...' Changes in Chinese University students' views of the temporal structure of learning

Higher Education

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 291-318

  Marton, Ference ^a   Wen, Qiufang ^b   Wong, Kam Cheung ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Chinese; Conceptions of learning; Longitudinal; Phenomenography; Variation theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 17444394450     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-004-6667-z     Document Type: Article

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