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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 ...
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See also

* Noel Entwistle * Roger Säljö


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Educational psychologists Academic staff of the University of Gothenburg 1939 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) {{Sweden-bio-stub