Dissonance between Conceptions of Learning and Ways of Learning for Indigenous Australian University Students

This article reports on a phenomenographic investigation into conceptions of learning for 15 Indigenous Australian university students over the three years of their degree courses. The ways in which they went about learning were also investigated along with the relationship between individual students' 'core' conceptions of learning and the ways in which they learned. Results indicated that their conceptions and ways of learning were similar in some respects to those found for other university students. However, some students went about learning in ways that were incongruent with the core conception of learning they held. This can be regarded as dissonance between strategies and conceptions of learning. The implications of this for teaching and learning for such students are discussed

Cognitive dissonance · Cooperative learning · Experiential learning · Higher education · Indigenous · Learning Sciences · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Teaching method · Evaluation of Teaching Practices · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Psychology · Reflective Practices in Education · Social Psychology

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