Ference Marton (born Ferenc Istvan Marton 7 March 1939) is a
Swedish educational psychologist
An educational psychologist is a psychologist whose differentiating functions may include diagnostic and psycho-educational assessment, psychological counseling in educational communities ( students, teachers, parents, and academic authorit ...
who is best known for introducing the distinction between deep and surface approaches to learning, and developing
phenomenography 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
University of Gothenburg
The University of Gothenburg () is a List of universities in Sweden, university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891, the university is the third-oldest of the current List of universities in Sweden#Public universities, S ...
.
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
Place of birth missing (living people)
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