Search results for "Cultural learning"
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“Is there any sugar in bread?” A qualitative video analysis of student activating learning tasks in Home Economics
2021
The Norwegian Food and Health (FH) school subject aims to develop students' ability to understand the association between diet and health. Research on FH in Norway indicates that the main focus today is on cooking and the development of practical cooking skills, leaving little emphasis on activities related to the more theoretical aspects of the curriculum. To increase students’ knowledge and skills regarding nutrition and health, we aimed to evaluate three newly developed student-activating learning tasks. Three 6th grade FH classes in Southern Norway participated. Audio and video recording of the learning tasks were used to evaluate the activities. Also, data from focus group discussions …
Language is not a gadget.
2019
Abstract Heyes does well to argue that some of the apparently innate human capabilities for cultural learning can be considered in terms of more general-purpose mechanisms. In the application of this to language, she overlooks some of its most interesting properties. I review three, and then illustrate how mindreading can come from general-purpose mechanism via language.
Foro de educación
2016
Resumen basado en el de la publicación Monográfico con el título, Enseñanza superior en Europa : objetivos contemporáneos para instituciones históricas Se describe el desarrollo de las universidades en Letonia desde la década de 1950 hasta la actualidad. Lo más alto del sistema educativo experimentó cambios junto con las transformaciones políticas del país. Letonia paso a ser parte de la Unión Soviética en 1940 y recuperó su independencia en 1991, pasando a unirse a la UE en 2004. Desde 2012 Letonia es una participante incipiente del Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior. Se describen las transformaciones de las universidades en Letonia desde la perspectiva de una teoría del aprendizaje cul…
Exploring global responsibility in higher education students’ cross-cultural dialogues
2019
This study engages with current debate around global education and internationalization of higher education(HE). There is an identified need to critically reflect on how global education commitments are introduced to HE students, and how the debates are brought to individual as well as institutional levels. The study explores how students in a Finnish university develop their understanding of global education, citizenship and potential dispositions towards global responsibility. The students participated in an international seminar on the global Education for All (EFA) process, with purposefully planned participatory activities and cross-cultural dialogues, and reflected on their learning a…
The school theatre as a place of cultural learning: the case of Soviet Latvia (1960s–1980s)
2017
AbstractThe goal of this article is to reveal how through school theatre activities under authoritarian rule, changes took place in pupil knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviour regarding culture, namely, how the process of cultural learning occurs. I use a historical case study, specifically the case of the Valmiera School Theatre, which was the leading theatre group, not only in Soviet Latvia, but also in the entire Soviet Union. My primary sources are eight unstructured interviews, 20 published memoirs, articles in the press, theatre programmes, and photographs. One part of Soviet pedagogy was aesthetic upbringing, which was implemented through state-funded collectives, including sch…
Presentation of the American culture in EFL textbooks : an analysis of the cultural content of Finnish EFL textbooks for secondary and upper secondar…
2011
Explicit and implicit tasks for assessing hedonic-versus nutrition-based attitudes towards food in French children
2015
Attitudes are important precursors of behaviours. This study aims to compare the food attitudes (i.e., hedonic- and nutrition-based) of children using both an implicit pairing task and an explicit forced-choice categorization task suitable for the cognitive abilities of 5- to 11-year-olds. A dominance of hedonically driven attitudes was expected for all ages in the pairing task, designed to elicit affective and spontaneous answers, whereas a progressive emergence of nutrition-based attitudes was expected in the categorization task, designed to involve deliberate analyses of the costs/benefits of foods. An additional exploratory goal was to evaluate differences in the attitudes of normal and…
Cultural Identity in Everyday Interactions at Work: Highly Skilled Female Russian Professionals in Finland
2013
The dominant research strands into social interaction in culturally diverse workplaces have focused on issues of organizational efficiency and discrimination, and they have treated cultural identity as static, monolithic, and universally shared. This study aims to problematize this view. It is argued that our understanding of cultural workplace diversity could be extended through the integration of interpretive and critical interpersonal communication theorizing on cultural identity as dynamic and processual, constructed between and among people in everyday workplace interactions and in relation to larger social, political, and historical forces. This argument is illustrated by an analysis …
Presentation of English-speaking cultures : upper secondary school textbooks of English in the 1980s and in the 2010s
2012
Englanti on yksi maailman levinneimmistä kielistä ja sitä puhutaan sekä äidinkielenä että vielä useammin toisena tai vieraana kielenä. Tämän moninaisuuden vuoksi on myös monia englanninkielisiä kulttuureja. Näistä tunnetuimpia ovat brittiläinen ja pohjoisamerikkalainen kulttuuri, jotka ovat myös hyvin esillä jokapäiväisessä elämässämme muun muassa television ja musiikin kautta. Tekstikirjoilla on tärkeä osa kielten opetuksessa ja niiden olisi hyvä heijastaa kohdekielten ja -kulttuurien todellista tilannetta maailmalla. Aikaisemmat tutkimukset kulttuurista kielten opetuksessa ovat nostaneet esille joitakin puutteita tekstikirjoissa. Ensinnäkin kirjat sisältävät usein stereotypioita, ja toise…
Sosiaalinen vuorovaikutusnäkökulma oppimiseen ja opettamiseen
2008
Kirja-arvio Hua, Zhu & Seedhouse, Paul & Wei, Li & Cook, Vivian (toim.): Language learning and teaching as social inter-action nonPeerReviewed