Transfer of learning and the cultural matrix: culture, beliefs and learning in Thailand higher education
Authored book
Book Title | Transfer of learning and the cultural matrix: culture, beliefs and learning in Thailand higher education |
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Book Category | Authored book |
Authors | |
Author | Green, Jonathan H. |
Number of Pages | 296 |
Year | 2015 |
Publisher | Deep University Press |
Place of Publication | Blue Mounds, Wisconsin |
ISBN | 9781939755186 |
Abstract | This book reports on a study conducted in an international college in Thailand that aimed to contribute to our understanding of the transfer of learning from an undergraduate academic literacy programme to the disciplines. The study adopted a cultural matrix to investigate the interrelationship among students' perceptions of transfer of learning, their personal beliefs about knowledge, knowing and learning, and their secondary school backgrounds. The findings give partial support for the application of the cultural matrix to transfer of learning, while revealing also an intriguing complexity to the beliefs systems of students who had been exposed to international education. To borrow from linguistics parlance, these multicultural students may code-switch between beliefs systems in much the same manner as multilinguals between languages. The study makes an original contribution by applying the cultural matrix to learning in a previously unexplored way. In so doing, it aims to generate a general theory of transfer of learning while fostering a culturally pluralistic understanding of learners' beliefs about knowledge and learning and the implications for such transfer. It also advocates an approach that supplements existing classroom-specific pedagogical methods with school-wide cultural management initiatives in order to better effect transfer of learning. |
Keywords | higher education; cultural studies; transfer of learning; academic literacy; beliefs systems |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 520102. Educational psychology |
390401. Comparative and cross-cultural education | |
390303. Higher education | |
390102. Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development | |
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Byline Affiliations | School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q36z7/transfer-of-learning-and-the-cultural-matrix-culture-beliefs-and-learning-in-thailand-higher-education
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