The University Experience: An Australian StudyWhat is the university to the 'normal' student? Is it an ivory tower, a community of scholars, the place of a liberal education? The original research incorporated in this book challenges many of the comfortable myths about tertiary education. Dr. Little conducted exhaustive interviews with 120 third-year students. He asked them why they came to university, what their parents' attitude was, whether they had non-university friends, what they expected of their lectures, whether they enjoyed their studies. Here, in their own words, are the answers. Three academic years have surprisingly little effect on the average student. He is not involved with radical or conservative student fringes. His family and friends have more impact than the academic staff. He has little informal or personal contact with his lectures and rarely wants more. He spends little time in extra-curricular activities at the university and seldom works beyond the syllabus. The university remains a static backdrop to a personal development which is a different kind for humanities and science students. This is a constructive and disturbing book. |
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An Australian Study Graham Little. At the beginning of matric I realized that I wouldn't like to stop my knowledge suddenly at the end of that year . . . but it wasn't really till the very end of matric year that I knew I could go on ...
An Australian Study Graham Little. At the beginning of matric I realized that I wouldn't like to stop my knowledge suddenly at the end of that year . . . but it wasn't really till the very end of matric year that I knew I could go on ...
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... matric . And of the rest ( the one - third in category C ) , who had political views in matric and now , few are deeply involved . More than half of them had not attended a political meeting ( defined very broadly to include social ...
... matric . And of the rest ( the one - third in category C ) , who had political views in matric and now , few are deeply involved . More than half of them had not attended a political meeting ( defined very broadly to include social ...
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... matric or now 15 62 6 25 25 B. More aware now 16 30 22 22 1 40 3 13 24 16 30 54 24 C. Interested in matric and now 9 22 13 33 18 45 40 Total 40 34 41 35 37 31 118 * Two students were not asked . On sexual morality For many students ...
... matric or now 15 62 6 25 25 B. More aware now 16 30 22 22 1 40 3 13 24 16 30 54 24 C. Interested in matric and now 9 22 13 33 18 45 40 Total 40 34 41 35 37 31 118 * Two students were not asked . On sexual morality For many students ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Approach to the University | 12 |
The Academic Experience | 37 |
Copyright | |
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