Authors:
Thomas Richter
and
Heimo H. Adelsberger
Affiliation:
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Keyword(s):
e-Learning, Inclusion, Culture Awareness, Culture-Sensible Education, Educational Culture, Culture-Related Conflicts in Education, Learning Culture Survey.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Computer-Supported Education
;
Context Dependent Learning
;
Critical Success Factors in Distance Learning
;
Distance and e-Learning in a Global Context
;
Distance Education
;
Domain Applications and Case Studies
;
e-Learning
;
Instructional Design
;
Learning/Teaching Methodologies and Assessment
;
Social Context and Learning Environments
;
Theoretical Bases of e-Learning Environments
;
Ubiquitous Learning
Abstract:
The Learning Culture Survey investigates learners’ expectations towards and perceptions of education on
international level with the aim to make culture in the context of education better understandable and support
educators to prevent and solve intercultural conflicts in education. So far, we found that culture-related
expectations differ between educational settings, depend on the age of the learners, and that a nationally
homogenous educational culture is rather an exception than the rule. The results of our recently completed
longitudinal study provided evidence that educational culture on the institutional level actually is persistent,
at least over a term of four years. After a brief introduction of the general background, we will subsume the
steps taken during the past seven years and achieved general insights regarding educational culture. Last, we
will introduce a method for the determination of conflict potential, which bases on the understanding of culture
as the level to
which people within a society accept deviations from the usual. We close with demonstrating
the method’s functionality on examples from the Learning Culture Survey.
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