A Class Without a View

A Cross-Cultural Challenge to Assumptions about Learning

Authors

  • Mary Catherine Fenton Western Carolina University
  • Miklos Peti Karoli Gaspar University of the Reformed Church in Hungary
  • Miklos Peti Karoli Gaspar University of the Reformed Church in Hungary

Keywords:

co-teaching, cross-cultural, global, failure, student motivation, student learning, student engagement, value of learning

Abstract

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.

Author Biographies

Miklos Peti, Karoli Gaspar University of the Reformed Church in Hungary

Head of Department
University Associate Professor,

Karoli Gaspar University of the Reformed Church in Hungary
Institute of English Studies, Department of Literary and Cultural Studies in English
Faculty of Humanities,

Miklos Peti, Karoli Gaspar University of the Reformed Church in Hungary

Head of Department
University Associate Professor,

Karoli Gaspar University of the Reformed Church in Hungary
Institute of English Studies, Department of Literary and Cultural Studies in English
Faculty of Humanities,

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Published

2019-01-21