Ference Marton - a brief presentation
Title: Professor emeritus
Unit: Learning and Teaching Unit
Phone: +46 (0)31-786 3431, 0708-25 76 31
E-mail: Ference.Marton@ped.gu.se
Research interests:
Learning, Education, Phenomenography, Variation Theory
Selected publications:
Boulton-Lewis, G. M., Marton, F., Lewis, D. C. & Wilss, L. A. (2004) A longitudinal study of learning for a group of indigenous Australian university students: Dissonant conceptions and strategies. Higher Education, 47, 91–112.
Marton, F., Tsui, A. (2004) Classroom discourse and the space of learning. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Gu, L., Huang, R. & Marton, F. (2004) Teaching with variation: A Chinese way of promoting effective Mathematics learning. In L. Fan, N. Y. Wong, J. Cai, & S. L. (Eds.), How Chinese learn mathematics: Perspectives from insiders. Singapore: World Scientifi c.
Marton, F., Wen, Q. F. & Wong, K. C. (2005)¿Read 100 times and the meaning will appear.¿ Changes in Chinese university students’ views of the temporal structure of learning during the fi rst two years of their studies. Higher Education, 49, 291–318.
Pang, M.F. & Marton, F. (2005) Learning theory as teaching resource. Instructional Science, 33, 159–191.
Marton, F. &. Pong, W.Y (2005) On the unit of description in Phenomenography. Higher Education Research & Development,24 (4), 335–348.
Marton, F. & Pang, M.F. (2006) On some necessary conditions of learning. The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 15(2),193–220.
Marton, F. (in press) Sameness and difference in transfer. The Journal of the Learning Sciences.