Training the brain or tending a garden? Students’ metaphors of learning predict self-reported learning patterns

Frontline Learning Research

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 95-109

  Wegner, Elisabeth ^a   Nückles, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Approaches to learning; Conceptions of learning; Learning patterns; Metaphors

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014757625     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22953159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14786/flr.v3i4.212     Document Type: Article

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