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Book Review: The Process of Learning

Book Review: The Process of Learning The Australian Journal of Education, Vol. 29, No.1, 1985 Book Reviews The Process oj Learning, by J. B. Biggs and R. Telfer. Sydney: Prentice-Hall, 1981. 539 pp. $19.95. On the map of the 'terra incognita' of human behaviour the empty spaces bear the legend 'Here be Psychologists'. TypicalIy, these shy creatures roam with cowlike tread, stolidly surveying vast wastes of shifting sand on which angelic footprints are hard to discern. Harsh words, perhaps, but in this business optimistic fantasies prepare the way of Mickey Mouse. Biggs and Telfer's book aptly illumines its cover of darkness with a picture of shifting sand, and a suggestion of innocence. They know, however, how things are, and quote James to the effect that, when it comes to psychology, 'the amount of this science which is necessary for alI teachers need not be very great ... A general view is enough, provided it be a true one.' Now, psychological verbiage may have flourished in the eighty years since James talked to teachers, but is any of it true? Having read this five-hundred-page compendium of the not very great amount of psychology student teachers need, it is clear the student will not know what is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Education SAGE

Book Review: The Process of Learning

Mageean, Bernard
Australian Journal of Education , Volume 29 (1): 2 – Apr 1, 1985
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© 1985 Australian Council for Educational Research.
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0004-9441
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10.1177/000494418502900108
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The Australian Journal of Education, Vol. 29, No.1, 1985 Book Reviews The Process oj Learning, by J. B. Biggs and R. Telfer. Sydney: Prentice-Hall, 1981. 539 pp. $19.95. On the map of the 'terra incognita' of human behaviour the empty spaces bear the legend 'Here be Psychologists'. TypicalIy, these shy creatures roam with cowlike tread, stolidly surveying vast wastes of shifting sand on which angelic footprints are hard to discern. Harsh words, perhaps, but in this business optimistic fantasies prepare the way of Mickey Mouse. Biggs and Telfer's book aptly illumines its cover of darkness with a picture of shifting sand, and a suggestion of innocence. They know, however, how things are, and quote James to the effect that, when it comes to psychology, 'the amount of this science which is necessary for alI teachers need not be very great ... A general view is enough, provided it be a true one.' Now, psychological verbiage may have flourished in the eighty years since James talked to teachers, but is any of it true? Having read this five-hundred-page compendium of the not very great amount of psychology student teachers need, it is clear the student will not know what is

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Published: Apr 1, 1985

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