Critical Reflection on Cultural Difference in the Computer Conference
| Autor: | Linda Ziegahn |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
| Předmět: |
05 social sciences
Distance education 050301 education 050109 social psychology Education Intercultural relations Transformative learning Adult education Cultural diversity Pedagogy 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology Computer-mediated communication Critical reflection 0503 education Qualitative research |
| Zdroj: | Adult Education Quarterly. 56:39-64 |
| ISSN: | 1552-3047 0741-7136 |
| Popis: | Adult educators have a strong interest in designing courses that stimulate learning toward critical, more inclusive cultural perspectives. Critical reflection is a key component of both intercultural learning and a growing medium of instruction, the asynchronous computer conference (CC). This study combined qualitative methodology with a framework for assessment of intercultural reflection to examine interactions between intercultural experience and issues and cognitive and affective approaches to reflection in a graduate course exploring cultural difference taught through the CC medium. Results revealed that beliefs about cultural difference were mediated through critical self-reflection approaches through which students linked cultural positions to inequity, embraced negative emotions, questioned prejudices, reframed underlying premises, and linked experiences to previously learned habits. Online discussion was strongly influenced by the topics of race and, secondarily, by experience as marginalized biculturals or international sojourners. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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