Engelsk titel: Verbal activity in the nursing education in Greenland
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Författare:
Steenfeldt VÖ
Språk: Dan
Antal referenser: 21
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 99105748
Sammanfattning
Teachers at the School of Nursing,
Centre for Haelth Care Education
in Greenland often experience low
verbal activity in the classrooms.
Only few students participate avtively
an spontaneously in discussions.
This article seeks to describe a
study aiming at analysing the reasons
for the low activity and the
possible pedagogical factors that
could contribute to a higher activity.
The study combines questionnaire
data, classroomobservations and
focus-group-interviews. The study
shows that three kinds of factors
influence the verbal activity: cultural,
linguistic and pedagogical factors.
In accordance with the litterature
on Greenlandic and Inuit culture,
the study indicates that showing
authorities (including teachers)
respect by keeping quiet, not
criticizing others and avoiding
making a point of stating ones opinion
are cultural elements. The linguistic
factors influencing the verbal
activity have to do with the
bilingual conditions of higher education
in Greenland. At the school
of nursing, most of the students speaks
Greenlandic as their native
mother tongue whereas the majority
of the teachers speaks Danish and
no Greenlandic. The combination
of the cultural factors and the linguistic
factors generates a need for
specific pedagogical initiatives;
most important seems to be the creation
of a basic feeling of security
when students are asked to speak
up in the classroom. There is a need
for situations where the student can
practice explaining things and
share his or her opinion with fellow
students.