Cultivating the disposition to understand in 21st century university education

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 303-310

  McCune, Velda ^a   Entwistle, Noel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Approaches to learning; Disposition to understand; Higher education; Understanding

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955464324     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2010.11.017     Document Type: Article

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