摘要：Students in their first year face the great challenge of transition from school to university, where independent and self-directed learning is called for. Students must navigate multifaceted life adaptations – physical ones such as moving away from home, and psychological ones such as moving into young adulthood, from the familiarity of the homogeneous school environment to the heterogeneous culture of the university, often from rural to urban, to a different language, to mixing with diverse race groups. Moving from the control, protection and predictability of school life, learners are free for the first time to test their autonomy and experiment with choices. Equally, the challenge of providing the best teaching and learning to this group rests with the educators in first year.
