Lars Owe Dahlgren & Ference Marton
Studies in Higher Education, 1978, Vol. 3, No. 1, Pp. 25-35.
Email: Lars Owe Dahlgren, Ference Marton
Students' conceptions of subject matter: an aspect of learning and teaching in higher education
Our intention is to outline a certain view of learning and teaching in higher education. In order to make our generalisations more concrete we have used, as an example, a research project concerned with ways of facilitating a deeper understanding of selected concepts in economics at university level. This project can be seen as a continuation of previous research, especially within another project entitled "Study skill and learning" carried out during 1970-74 - see e.g. Svensson's (1974) work with the same title - whose conclusions related to qualitative differences in learning.