- Title
- Experiential learning in social science theory : An investigation of the relationship between student enjoyment and learning
- Creator
- McEachern, Steven; Blunsdon, Betsy; Reed, Ken; McNeil, Nicola
- Date
- 2003
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/56964
- Identifier
- vital:575
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/0729436032000056544
- Identifier
- ISSN:0729-4360
- Abstract
- This paper provides an analysis of student experiences of an approach to teaching theory that integrates the teaching of theory and data analysis. The argument that supports this approach is that theory is most effectively taught by using empirical data in order to generate and test propositions and hypotheses, thereby emphasising the dialectic relationship between theory and data through experiential learning. Bachelor of Commerce students in two second-year substantive organisational theory subjects were introduced to this method of learning at a large, multi-campus Australian university. In this paper, we present a model that posits a relationship between students’ perceptions of their learning, the enjoyment of the experience and expected future outcomes.; C1
- Publisher
- Routledge (Taylor & Francis)
- Relation
- Higher Education Research & Development Vol. 22, no. 1 (2003), p. 43-56
- Rights
- Copyright 2003 Routledge
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1301 Education Systems; Higher education
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