Skip navigation
SuUB logo
DSpace logo

  • Home
  • Institutions
    • University of Bremen
    • City University of Applied Sciences
    • Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences
  • Sign on to:
    • My Media
    • Receive email
      updates
    • Edit Account details

Citation link: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00105669-12
00105669-1.pdf
OpenAccess
 
copyright

Perspectives of university teaching in Costa Rica in times of digital media


File Description SizeFormat
00105669-1.pdf14.79 MBAdobe PDFView/Open
Other Titles: Perspektiven des universitären Unterrichts in Costa Rica in Zeiten digitaler Medien
Authors: Barrantes Acuna, Danny 
Supervisor: Nake, Frieder
1. Expert: Nake, Frieder
2. Expert: Schelhowe, Heidi
Abstract: 
Perspectives of university teaching in Costa Rica in times of digital media examines an educational approach to understand the space of learning that takes place in higher education. For that, a selection of viewpoints of digital media and university teaching are discussed in the light of a tradition: the Journeyman Years. The key research question is: what is a space of learning in higher education from the students and professor's perspectives at the Universidad de Costa Rica? Pertinent to this topic, other sub-questions are: what kind of spaces of learning are being ofered at the Universidad de Costa Rica? How to reconsider the space of learning at a university? Chapter Two introduces the Wanderjahre (Journeyman Years) story, a leading metaphor for this manuscript where an approach to learning in terms of space is presented. Chapter Three examines two diferent knowledge approaches: frst, mechanistic thinking is highlighted in relation to digital media. Humans learn of natural phenomena through rational means, seeking to demystify and unveil a true world. Second, romantic thinking is featured in relation to higher education. Individuals learn about the world by engaging in practice while being social, experiencing directly the world in continuous change. Chapter Four presents an interpretation of the previous theoretical perspectives. After a selection of reviewed concepts, Learning by Wandering is proposed, a structure to analyze the construction of the space of learning in higher education. Chapter Five describes an ethnographic case study of the space of learning at the Universidad de Costa Rica, where 150 students and eight university teachers throughout diferent contexts are studied. Chapter Six features the major relevant fndings in my thesis to analyze university teaching in terms of space. In this chapter, a list of recommendations for the Universidad de Costa Rica is ofered, in order to foster higher education in terms of space.
Keywords: UNIVERSITY TEACHING,DIGITAL MEDIA,SPACE OF LEARNING,WANDERJAHRE,UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA,BILDUNG
Issue Date: 26-Oct-2015
Type: Dissertation
URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00105669-12
Institution: Universität Bremen 
Faculty: FB3 Mathematik/Informatik 
Appears in Collections:Dissertationen

  

Page view(s)

47
checked on Jan 22, 2021

Download(s)

11
checked on Jan 22, 2021

Google ScholarTM

Check


Items in Media are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.

Legal notice -Feedback -Data privacy
Media - Extension maintained and optimized by Logo 4SCIENCE