Ference Marton (born Ferenc Istvan Marton 7 March 1939) is a
Swedish
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educational psychologist
An educational psychologist is a psychologist whose differentiating functions may include diagnostic and psycho-educational Psychological evaluation, assessment, psychological counseling in educational communities (students, teachers, parents, ...
who is best known for introducing the distinction between deep and surface approaches to learning, and developing
phenomenography
Phenomenography is a qualitative research methodology, within the Antipositivism, interpretivist paradigm, that investigates the qualitatively different ways in which people experience something or think about something.Marton, F. (1986). Phenomen ...
as a methodology for educational research. More recently, he developed a theory of classroom learning based on establishing the prerequisites for learning conceived as the "space of learning". Marton is a professor of education at the
Göteborg University
The University of Gothenburg ( sv, Göteborgs universitet) is a university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891, the university is the third-oldest of the current Swedish universities and with 37,000 students and 6000 s ...
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See also
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Noel Entwistle
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Roger Säljö
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Publications
Educational psychologists
Academic staff of the University of Gothenburg
1939 births
Living people
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