Xiaomin Jiao

Influences on Learning: Voices of Postgraduate Students in a New Zealand University Xiaomin Jiao

Research on students' approaches to learning in higher education has consistently demonstrated a range of factors influencing students' approaches to learning. Very little literature exists on how postgraduate students in New Zealand experience and perceive these influences. This book explores factors that influence learning from interviews with a range of postgraduate students in a New Zealand university. Data were analysed within each case to show that participant's uniqueness, as well as across the cases to identify common themes pertinent to postgraduate students in general. The findings have significance for understanding and improving the quality of learning of students at a postgraduate level. This book should be especially useful to lecturers in postgraduate programmes, and others interested in the scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education.