Tell Me Your Life: Including Life Stories in an Adult Development and Aging Course

被引:4
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作者
Villar, Feliciano [1 ]
Celdran, Montserrat [1 ]
Faba, Josep [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Barcelona, Dept Dev & Educ Psychol, Passeig Vall Hebron 171, Barcelona 08035, Spain
关键词
aging; autobiographical memories; developmental psychology; experiential learning; life experiences;
D O I
10.1080/02701960.2013.815181
中图分类号
G40 [教育学];
学科分类号
040101 ; 120403 ;
摘要
The goals of this study were to determine the learning impact of an assignment that consisted of interviewing and analyzing older people's life stories, and to explore how the assignment was evaluated by students. Participants in the study were 122 first-year social education students enrolled in an adult development and aging course. They evaluated the assignment using an eight-adjective questionnaire and were asked about the benefits of the task. Their answers to the questionnaire were then reviewed using content analysis. The results indicated that marks on the life story assignment predicted marks on an exam about basic course concepts. Students considered that the assignment was interesting, useful, and integrated into the course, although most of them also thought that it was very time-consuming. They identified benefits related to the explicit goals of the course (improvement in the learning of developmental concepts, the acquisition of research-related skills, and the deactivation of aging stereotypes) and personal, growth-related benefits. The authors discuss the difficulties posed by the assignment and its usefulness as a complement to more traditional, lecture-based teaching methods in adult development and aging courses.
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页码:171 / 181
页数:11
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