Rethinking 'Learning' in Higher Education: Viewing the Student as 'Social Actor'
Journal of Critical Realism 11 (3):296-323 (2012)
| Abstract | A number of authors from different theoretical perspectives have called for new interdisciplinary ways of considering learning within the higher education context. Peter Jarvis’s lifelong learning perspective offers a viable alternative, but lacks a strong theory of the person as self, agent and actor. In response I propose that Margaret Archer’s realist social theory has a particular utility for bridging ‘common dualisms’ as part of an interdisciplinary enquiry into higher education learning, and offers a strong theory of the person | |||||||||
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