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Raising Awareness of Students’ Self-Directed Learning Readiness (SDLR)
2021
This paper describes the mapping of self-directed learning readiness (SDLR) for adult students applying for a master’s degree program delivered entirely as distanced learning. Since SDLR is strongly linked to both adult learning and online education, developing of self-directed learning (SDL) skills should be taken into consideration in our degree program. Making future students aware of SDLR is the first stage in introducing self-directed learning methods and practices in learning environments. The easiest way to do this is to have students answer an SDLR self-assessment questionnaire and give them feedback regarding their SDLR level. This paper presents how this is realized and provides t…
NEW METHODS DEEPENING UNDERSTANDING OF STUDENTS' EXPERIENCES AND THEIR RELATION TO PHYSIOLOGICAL ALERTNESS VARIATIONS DURING LEARNING
2019
In this study we explored whether physiological measurement technologies could be used in a combination with traditional educational research methods to investigate learning experiences. We aimed, first, to explore individual physiological reactions during learning and how these reactions relate to experiences, emotions and contexts of learning and, second, to test new methodology and its suitability for investigating learning. The data was collected during a teacher education programme in a Finnish university. A total of 14 students participated in the study. The data was collected during two contact periods of three days and the weekends after them, ten days in total. We used a mixed meth…
METHODOLOGY DEVELOPMENT IN ADULT LEARNING RESEARCH. COMBINING PHYSIOLOGICAL REACTIONS AND LEARNING EXPERIENCES IN SIMULATION-BASED LEARNING ENVIRONME…
2020
We aim to clarify whether physiological measurement technologies can be used in combination with traditional educational research methods to investigate learning experience. We developed an interdisciplinary research design for multilevel investigation of adult learning experience. We collected data in aviation simulations and forestry simulations, to show both similarities and differences between different learning situations. Both settings utilize high quality virtual simulations allowing learning to occur in near authentic situations. The learning situations were structured pedagogically in a similar way. They involve learner-instructor interaction in a one-on-one setting and follow a tr…
The learning outcomes approach in formal second chance education
2015
Promocijas darbs pieaugušo pedagoģijā „Mācīšanās rezultātu pieeja formālajā otrās iespējas izglītībā” tika izstrādāts Latvijas Universitātes Pedagoģijas, psiholoģijas un mākslas fakultātē laika posmā no 2009. līdz 2014.gadam. Darba izstrādi vadīja Dr. habil. paed., profesore Irina Maslo. Darba mērķis ir izpētīt saiknes starp mācīšanās rezultātu pieeju un pedagoģisko praksi formālās otrās iespējas izglītībā, noteikt analītiskajos pierādījumos pamatotus faktus par šķēršļiem un iespējām, ar kurām mācīšanās procesā sastopas pieaugušie (kas nav ieguvuši attiecīgo izglītību). Darbā ir 204 lappuses, un tas sastāv no ievada, trīs nodaļām, literatūras saraksta un desmit pielikumiem. Pētījumā izmanto…
Language ideologies about learning historical minority languages : Hungarian in Romania and Swedish in Finland
2015
Growth Into Citizenship: Framework for Conceptualizing Learning in NGO Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa
2018
This article develops a theoretical framework for analyzing adult learning in projects aiming to strengthen citizenship implemented by nongovernmental organizations, especially in the contexts of sub-Saharan Africa. On the basis of a review of international development research, we suggest that a new framework should address the need for a conceptualization of learning as a gradual process and for capturing the gap between ideal models and everyday experiences of citizenship. We argue, building on John Dewey’s philosophy, for a framework of growth into citizenship, and introduce the notions of learning as reorganization of habits and the method of democracy as an avenue for learning as nove…