Teaching Instructivist Educated Digital Natives Using a Constructivist Learning Theory in Transnational Education

Watson, Ian Robert

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Title

Teaching Instructivist Educated Digital Natives Using a Constructivist Learning Theory in Transnational Education

Author(s)

Watson, Ian Robert

Issue Date

2014-03-01

Keyword(s)

• learning theories
• transnational education
• instructivist
• constructivist
• acculturation

Abstract

This work looks at the teaching of eastern educated students (largely instructivist) by staff teaching in a western educational style (constructivist) if these staff themselves have been educated in an eastern educational style. Berry's four fold model of acculturation strategies is applied to the primary research. Conclusions are made that the staff modify their teaching and the materials they are provided with to accommodate the two learning styles. This work also confirms that the teachers conform to Berry's `creative assimilation', as they display a `new' form of the two learning cultures.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2014 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

english

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/47329

DOI

https://doi.org/10.9776/14354

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