Reflecting on the Biggs-Watkins theory of the Chinese Learner

Title: Reflecting on the Biggs-Watkins theory of the Chinese Learner
Creator: Saravanamuthu, Kala
Relation: Critical Perspectives on Accounting Vol. 19, Issue 2, p. 138-180
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2005.12.005
Publisher: Academic Press
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2008
Description: This article provides a critical review of the theory of the Chinese Learner. A Chinese Learner hails from the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan or Singapore: these national student markets are much sought byWestern tertiary education industry. I look beyond the full-fee attributes of these students and dialectically inquire into the paradoxes surrounding their learning approaches. For instance, Chinese students are often deemed to be rote-learners, yet they demonstrate performance that implies high cognitive learning. A social analysis is used to explain these contradictions and identify areas that would benefit from context-dependent social research.
Subject: accounting; education; Chinese; deep; surface; achieving; learning
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/803718
Identifier: uon:6481
Identifier: ISSN:1045-2354
Language: eng
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