Transfer of learning and its ascendancy in higher education: a cultural critique

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Green, Jonathan H.. 2013. "Transfer of learning and its ascendancy in higher education: a cultural critique." Teaching in Higher Education. 18 (4), pp. 365-376. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2012.719155

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Article Title	Transfer of learning and its ascendancy in higher education: a cultural critique
ERA Journal ID	19316
Article Category	Article
Author	Green, Jonathan H.
Journal Title	Teaching in Higher Education
Journal Citation	18 (4), pp. 365-376
Number of Pages	12
Year	2013
Publisher	Routledge
Place of Publication	United Kingdom
ISSN	1356-2517
	1470-1294
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2012.719155
Web Address (URL)	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13562517.2012.719155
Abstract	Transfer of learning has long been posited as a goal of education. Recent ideological developments have raised transfer's prominence in higher education: increasingly, universities measure their success by the transferability of graduates' skills and knowledge to the workplace. A cultural matrix of social psychology provides an alternative discourse, holding that many psychological characteristics and values that underpin transfer are based on assumptions that may not apply universally and that, accordingly, transfer may not be the central goal that it is frequently assumed to be. This discussion presents a critique on an adherence to transfer that ignores values that may be equally important to students' personal and social development. In so doing, it advocates the application of the cultural matrix to the theory of transfer of learning. It concludes that, paradoxically, recognition of divergent cultural values from around the globe, including the East, may guide universities back to the western cultural tradition of a liberal education.
Keywords	higher education; transfer of learning; cultural diversity; social equity
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020	390401. Comparative and cross-cultural education
	390102. Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development
	520599. Social and personality psychology not elsewhere classified
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Byline Affiliations	Mahidol University, Thailand
Institution of Origin	University of Southern Queensland

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