Cox, A.M., Chiles, P. and Care, L. (2013) Exploring Students’ Group Work Needs in the Context of Internationalisation Using a Creative Visual Method. International Journal of Higher Education, 1 (2).
Abstract
While UK universities see group work as essential to building higher order intellectual and team skills, many international students are unfamiliar with this way of studying. Group work is also a focus of home students’ concerns. Cultural differences in the interpretation of space for learning or how spatial issues affect group work processes has not been much explored in the internationalisation literature. The research described in this paper used data based on Chinese and home students making models of a good group work space. The data showed no marked cultural differences in visual taste. However, Chinese students were more concerned with the emotion of group work while home students were task focussed. All designs opted for a neutral office style design, rather than celebrating diversity. The paper supports the value of creative visual methods in exploring difficult to articulate topics, as part of a package of qualitative research methods.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2012 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Internationalisation; Group work; Chinese students; Space. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Information School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 16 May 2014 15:13 |
Last Modified: | 15 Jun 2014 04:43 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/ijhe.v1n2p21 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Sciedu Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.5430/ijhe.v1n2p21 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:79078 |