ABSTRACT
Kember argues instead that matters are rather more complex than that. Asian students may appear as relatively passive and make much use of memorisation as an aid to learning, but that has much to do with the ways in which they have been taught at school, and with underlying socio-cultural patterns of behaviour. Memorisation may be used as a means to developing understanding, leading to deep learning, rather than the surface forms of learning it seems to imply. Similarly, Asian students are not simply motivated by the desire to achieve good marks and qualifications in order to get better jobs, but may combine this with both intrinisic motivation and more collective behaviours.
