Who's the Boss?: Culture and the Problem of Transfer

• Main Author: Green, Jonathan
• Other Authors: Mahidol University. International College. Humanities and Language Division.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Transfer of learning; Learner agency; Personal epistemology; Culture; Higher education
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/10487
• Institution: Mahidol University

Transfer of learning, although arguably education’s most important goal, is also its most pervasive problem. Research confirms one of the classroom teacher’s most common complaints: that learners do not transfer what they have learnt in one subject to another, or fail to use what they have learnt in...