Naslov
Is Globalization Changing Students’ Learning?

Autori
Dobrenov-Major, Maria

Izvornik
Lētünk. Társadalom-Tudomāny-Kultūra (1786-0091) 41 (2011), 1; 75-99

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
globalization; cultural differences in acquisition of knowledge; foreign language teaching; education of foreign language teacher; Bologna process; interactive strategies

Sažetak
This paper reports on a small scale project that aims to contribute to the ongoing debate on globalization and education. Forces of globalization condition the context in which educators operate and it seems that it has already altered students’ educational experiences. The primary aim of this research is to investigate whether learning happens in different cultural contexts in culturally distinctive ways or whether under the influence of technology and globalized approaches to pedagogy students’ knowledge acquisition happens in a similar way. Three groups of foreign language teacher education students were involved in this research. Two were located in two different European countries and one in Australia. The data for this project were gathered through daily oral feedback of students’ on their learning experiences and perceptions on teaching, a questionnaire, the researcher’s diary notes and the students’ assignments. The research revealed that the students’ academic work was highly globalized. Although two of the three groups were required to function outside of their own cultural-semiotic space and produce academic work in foreign language – which was not their native language – the student output was highly adjusted to the Anglo-Saxon academic conventions. There was a high level of similarity noticeable between the two European student groups’ preferences and approaches to learning and there were some not significantly marked differences in comparison to the Australian group. It seems that the geographic location at which the students gained their education and their educational experiences and the technology utilized in their learning played a more significant role in the ways they constructed the conditions for their learning and their knowledge than their ethnic and cultural background.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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