Coping with Isolation: The role of culture in adult distance learners' use of surrogates

Coping with Isolation: The role of culture in adult distance learners' use of surrogates

• Venter, Katharine Centre for Labour Market Studies, University of Leicester, UK

Open Learning, 18(3), 271-287, 2003

Routledge

2003

• Q 教育體系與各級學校
  • QG 成人教育、終身及延續教育
• P 香港教育各層面與外地之比較
  • PB 香港教育各層面與外地之比較
• A 人的成長與發展
  • AE 社會經濟差異、文化差異、階級和家庭背景

Masters Degrees Graduate Students Andragogy Coping Cultural Pluralism Models Social Isolation Role Culture Distance Education Foreign Countries Cultural Differences Cognitive Style Malaysia Europe Hong Kong Singapore

• Hong Kong
• Singapore
• Malaysia

• 1997.7 onwards

• 成人教育

Conceptions of learning and preferred learning approaches have been suggested to vary cross-culturally. The extent to which learning is 'student-centred' or 'teacher-centred' also appears subject to cultural variation. This has led some to conclude that particular cultures exhibit learning preferences more suited to distance learning than do other cultures. This article examines the strategies that students from varying cultural backgrounds use to manage the experience of the isolation of distance learning. Two distinct isolation experiences emerge that reflect differences in the perceptions of the student-teacher relationship. These, it is argued, can be classified as a 'surrogate teacher' model in the Asian cultures of Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia and a 'student identity' model in Europe.
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• 英文

期刊論文

• 02680513

• 10.1080/0268051032000131035

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/tc/bibs/b5451525

2010-09-08