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Listening to their Lives: Learning through Narrative in an Undergraduate Practicum Course

2017· article· en· W2773454754 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Kristen Cairney, Andrea Breen

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAdult and Continuing Education Topics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPracticumNarrativeExperiential learningPedagogyPsychologyActive listeningNarrative inquiryIdentity (music)Aesthetics

Abstract

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Experiential community-based learning is used for academic purposes, as well as to promote students’ civic education, moral development, and the development of identity. Recent advancements in narrative identity theory may have important implications for enriching our understanding of how learning occurs in the context of community-based learning. In this study we examine students’ learning in a third year undergraduate practicum course in the human services through the lens of narrative identity theory. Nine students (ages 20-26) who had recently completed the practicum course completed a semi-structured interview focusing on the story of their practicum experience and their changing conceptions of self and others. Results of thematic analyses suggest that students experienced important shifts in their understanding of self and others and their learning occurred through engagement with others’ stories. Students who worked with vulnerable populations reflected on the biases and stereotypes they held prior to their practicum experience and described developing new insights into the experiences and social realities of marginalized others. Experiences of discomfort/disorientation and active-engagement in reflective meaning-making were critical to students’ learning. We discuss implications for incorporating narrative in teaching and learning. On a recours à l’apprentissage par l’expérience en milieu communautaire à des fins académiques, ainsi que pour encourager l’éducation civique, le développement moral et le développement de l’identité des étudiants. Les récents développements dans la théorie de l’identité narrative pourraient avoir des implications importantes pour enrichir notre compréhension de la manière dont l’apprentissage se réalise dans le contexte de l’apprentissage en milieu communautaire. Dans cette étude, nous examinons l’apprentissage des étudiants dans un stage pratique de troisième année au premier cycle dans le domaine des ressources humaines à travers la lorgnette de la théorie de l’identité narrative. Neuf étudiants (âgés de 20 à 26 ans) qui avaient récemment terminé le stage ont complété une entrevue semi-structurée concentrée sur leur expérience au cours du stage et sur les changements survenus dans leurs conceptions de soi et d’autrui. Les résultats des analyses thématiques suggèrent que les étudiants ont fait l’expérience de changements importants dans leur compréhension de soi et d’autrui et que leur apprentissage s’est réalisé grâce à leur engagement dans les histoires d’autrui. Les étudiants qui ont travaillé avec des populations vulnérables ont réfléchi à propos des préjugés et des stéréotypes auxquels ils adhéraient avant le stage et ils ont décrit comment ils avaient développé de nouvelles perspectives sur les expériences et les réalités sociales des personnes marginalisées. Les expériences d’inconfort et de désorientation ainsi que l’engagement actif dans la recherche de la signification ont constitué des éléments essentiels dans l’apprentissage des étudiants. Nous discutons les implications qu’il y aurait à incorporer les récits descriptifs dans l’enseignement et l’apprentissage.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.009
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.012
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Science and technology studies, Scholarly communication, Research integrity
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.265
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0090.012
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0220.000
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.063
GPT teacher head0.397
Teacher spread0.334 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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