A Class Without a View
A Cross-Cultural Challenge to Assumptions about Learning
Keywords:
co-teaching, cross-cultural, global, failure, student motivation, student learning, student engagement, value of learningAbstract
Based on our recent experience co-teaching a class in Budapest, Hungary, we offer a counter-narrative to the positive chronicles of culturally integrated teaching, and reflect on how our experience of failure revealed some of the timely challenges and deep issues facing higher education globally: student disengagement and lack of intrinsic motivation, and a cultural divide between teacher and student values about learning. As a result of our failed class and co-teaching experience, we propose an altered understanding of “what a class is,†and address how “a deep dive into the why†of student learning might help reckon with, and build on, mutually appreciated standards of attention, motivation, and engagement.
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2019-01-21
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Reflections