Social dimensions of learning – the experience of young adult students with Asperger syndrome at a supported IT education
Engelsk titel: Social dimensions of learning – the experience of young adult students with Asperger syndrome at a supported IT education
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Författare:
Hedegaard, Joel
;
Hugo, Martin
Email: joel.hedegaard@ju.se
Språk: Eng
Antal referenser: 37
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 17060094
Sammanfattning
The purpose of this paper is to describe how young adults with Asperger
syndrome experience an educational project called ‘the IT-track’. The
methods used included participant observation and research interviews.
The results were interpreted within the theoretical framework described
by ‘Supported Education’ (SED). The most prominent experience among
the students was social learning. Students describe that they gradually
began to function better socially with others and developed various
abilities, such as asking for help, and talking to groups.The teachers
emerged in the interviews as the single most important source of
support as they formed the basis of two key points of SED. Overall,
studying at the IT-track resulted in the students extending their horizons
of possibility by breaking away from their previous sense of isolation
which was marked by idleness and loneliness. By participating at the ITtrack,
the students’ sense of participation and meaningfulness increased.