- Title
- Understanding and responding to student learning difficulties within the higher education context
- Creator
- Amos, Trevor L
- Creator
- Fischer, Sarah
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 1998
- Date
- 1998
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/270972
- Identifier
- vital:54497
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA10113487_570"
- Description
- Higher education in South Africa is challenged to promote the academic success of students through quality teaching and learning. This article provides a sound theoretical understanding of student learning difficulties as difficulties of accessing and mastering the cognitive processes entailed in the groundrules of the specific academic disciplines within higher education Based on this theoretical groundwork. the article argues for the integration of academic development into the mainstream teaching and learning activities of specific disciplines where the tutorial system is used to develop the specific academic literacy required for success within the discipline.
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (7 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Sabinet
- Language
- English
- Relation
- South African Journal of Higher Education
- Relation
- Amos, TL, Fischer, S., 1998. Understanding and responding to student learning difficulties within the higher education context: A theoretical foundation for developing academic literacy. South African Journal of Higher Education, 12(2), pp.17-23
- Relation
- South African Journal of Higher Education volume 12 number 2 p. 17 1998 1011-3487
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Sabinet Terms and Conditions Statement (https://www.sabinet.co.za/terms-conditions)
- Rights
- Closed Access
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