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Sylvia Dempsey; Margaret Healy; Carol Linehan – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Placement as a form of work-integrated learning is a valued element of undergraduate education. Prior work explores how placement provides a site for developing professional values, skills and competences as well as identifying how students build awareness of professional requirements. Greater focus on how such processes of awareness are realised,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Self Concept, Student Experience, Group Membership
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Taylor, Marilyn – Studies in Higher Education, 1986
A developmental process consisting of four phases that emerged from graduate students' reports of their experiences in a course promoting self-direction is outlined and compared with research on similar processes in other groups. (MSE)
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Independent Study
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Lewis, Harry A. – Studies in Higher Education, 1978
The question of whether it is a teacher's job to promote autonomy in students is explored. The discussion includes a review of some pertinent literature, with focus on "Faces on the Campus" by Graham Little, whose notion is seen as providing a worthy ideal. (JMD)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy, Higher Education