scholarly journals Sociocultural Learning Theories and Information Literacy Teaching Activities in Higher Education

2007 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Wang
2006 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Cowie

An analogy is drawn between how sports in Japan are practiced, and how Japanese as a second language is taught. These two areas are examined through the frameworks of sociocultural and cultural learning theories which have led the author to reflect on and adjust his own English language teaching beliefs. These theories are then linked with Bourdieu’s concept of “cultural capital” in which students are socialized into certain educational practices and perceptions in order to succeed in a society. It is argued that when students move from the familiar practices and perceptions of school to the different ones of a university foreign language classroom, both they and their teachers, need to be given time and the means to adapt to new forms of cultural capital. 本論文は日本におけるスポーツ・トレーニングと日本語を外国人に教える方法との間に類似性を指摘する。この二つの分野の教授法を社会文化学習理論及び文化学習理論の枠組みから考察し、これにより著者はこれまでの自己の英語教育への信条を反省し、調整する。さらに社会文化学習理論をBourdieuの提唱するcultural capital概念、つまり学習者は社会で成功するために特定の教育慣行や認識に順応していくという考え方と連動させる。本論文は学習者が従来慣れ親しんできた学習法や認識を脱して大学の外国語授業へと移行できるまでには、学習者が、そしてまた教師が、新しい形のcultural capitalに適合できるだけの時間と手段が必要であることを提唱する。


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nino BITSKINASHVILI

The article studies technology integration method based on sociocultural learning approaches and examines their potential for developing active learning possibilities in higher education. As defined in Vygotsky’s research, sociocultural learning theories are learner-centered and fit into collaborative approaches to student learning. The method also takes into account the social and cultural aspects of gaining knowledge. Facilitation of reflective practice involves students in thoughtful, active and personally meaningful learning process. Digital Storytelling (DST) creates a reliable and empowering environment for intercultural collaboration and learning. It presumes that the procedure of digital story-making and empowers and modifies students intellectually, creatively and culturally. Consequently, Digital Storytelling can be perceived as beneficial toolkit pedagogy for the new Humanities in the 21st century. An interview to find out what students’ and lectures perceptions of digital storytelling as a tool for learning in different subjects are. Analysis of students’ and lecturers’ reflections revealed four themes: motivation, collaboration, reflective practice and identity development. 


IFLA Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-142
Author(s):  
Deborah Schachter

This article is informed by a mixed-methods research study into librarians’ critical information literacy awareness and teaching practices in higher education institutions within British Columbia, Canada, and the literature related to critical pedagogical and literacy theory. I explore the perceived gap in librarian knowledge of theories that underpin their pedagogy, the value of learning about and applying theories to information literacy teaching, and strategies that can enable improved awareness and application of theory to librarians’ practices in higher education.


2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Domino Østergaard

Through study, investigation and discussion of the concept Best Practice in science education (Ellebæk & Østergaard, 2009) it was shown, that the dialogue in the teaching sequences was an important factor for the children’s understanding, engagement and interest for the science subjects and phenomena. In this article we will discuss dialogue in the light of sociocultural learning theories, and relate it to Inquiry Based Science Education (IBSE), as the pedagogical and didactical method, which are promoted most strongly these years (e.g. in the inter-European Pollen and Fibonacci projects). The method is central in the action research project NatSats, where focus is on children’s hypothesizing and the way teacher’s use dialogue in their teaching or guiding of children in kindergarten and primary school. Results from the project indicate that an open and interrogative dialogue based on the student’s premises is able to support hypothesizing, which initiates explorative and investigative challenges for the students.


Author(s):  
Martina M. Barnas ◽  
Snezhana Zheltoukhova

The SWSEEL intensive language summer training program held annually at the Bloomington campus of Indiana University is one of the oldest and most popular intensive Russian language programs in the US. In this paper we reflect on our respective combined experience as a Russian course learner and a Russian course instructor to identify benefits and potential challenges from the perspective of sociocultural learning theories as developed in the field of Learning Sciences. We show the sociocultural lens is well suited for describing learning in the SWSEEL environment, and the Russian SWSEEL course is designed and taught in agreement with perspectives of learning in sociocultural learning theories. Ultimately, sociocultural instructional strategies strengthen the SWSEEL model and validate the application of sociocultural learning design in the context of intensive language programs.


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 501-516
Author(s):  
María Ángela Jiménez Montañés ◽  
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Susana Villaluenga de Gracia

The implementation of curricula of degree, within the framework of the European space of higher education (EEES) has been a substantial change in University learning. The student spent acquire knowledge, competencies, being considered as “an identifiable and measurable set of knowledge, attitudes, values and skills related that allow satisfactory performance in real-life situations of work, according to the standards used in the occupational area” (Van-der Hofstadt & Gómez, 2013, p. 30). More specifically, we talk about generic skills, which are the cognitive, social, emotional and ethical (initiative, effort with the quality, liability, etc.) of transferable character that constitute “knowledge be” in vocational training of the University; and specific competencies in the various degrees and disciplines, allowing to specify functions and professional profiles to form. The degree of management and business administration, general objective is to train professionals and experts in the knowledge and use of processes, procedures, and practices employed in organizations. This overall objective implies to consider the interrelationships between the different parts of the Organization and its relationship with the environment. Studies administration and business management are aimed at learning theories, models and tools applicable to the processes of decision and management organizations. According to the book white of the title of the degree in economics and business, published by the national agency of evaluation and quality, distinguish between specific objectives in the field of knowledge and specific objectives in the field of competences and skills. Focusing on the latter, and in accordance with the Subject Benchmark Statements of General Business and Management, published by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education in the United Kingdom, the specific objectives in the field of skills and abilities that we focus the work would empower the student to it raise the ethical exercise of the profession, assuming social responsibility in decision-making. In this environment, it is necessary to consider the implementation of the 2014/95/EU Directive on disclosure of non-financial information and information on diversity of certain large companies and certain groups resulted in the publication of the Royal Decree 18/2017, of 24 November, whereby amending the commercial code, the consolidated text of the Capital Companies Act approved by Royal Legislative Decree 1/2010 of 2 July and the law 22/2015, 20 July audit of accounts , in the field of non-financial information and diversity. This new disclosure requirement for companies leads us to consider the need to introduce a transversal subject in the curricula of students in economics and management and business administration studies, in order to acquire the skills necessary in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), to produce the new business reports.


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