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- Title
Pre-service teachers' perceptions of collaborative learning at university: A repeated cross-sectional study.
- Authors
Long, Siobhán Dowling; Long, Fiachra
- Abstract
This study explores how a group of pre-service teachers in the second year of a preservice teachers masters program - the Postgraduate Master of Education (PME) - understood and practised collaborative learning (CL). Conducted over a six-year period (2015-2021), the study used semi-structured interviews (n=14) and surveys (n=100) to shed light on students' experience of collaborative learning in one 5 ECTS credits module (ED6341), taking account of their previous experience of CL, and their perceptions of CL as it emerged during the group work component of the module. The results indicate that the attitudes of students to CL were largely positive, despite the challenges they recognised. In particular, the study considered students' understanding of (1) the challenges of CL; (2) the benefits of CL; (3) the authority of faculty members.
- Subjects
STUDENT teacher attitudes; COLLABORATIVE learning; CROSS-sectional method
- Publication
Issues in Educational Research, 2023, Vol 33, Issue 2, p529
- ISSN
0313-7155
- Publication type
Article