Title
Approaches to studying across culturally contrasting groups : Implications for Security Education
Authors
[ 1 ] Instytut Podstaw Bezpieczeństwa, Wydział Bezpieczeństwa Narodowego, Akademia Sztuki Wojennej | [ P ] employee
Scientific discipline (Law 2.0)
Year of publication
2017
Published in
Article type
scientific article
Publication language
english
Keywords
EN
- Education for safety
- Immigration
- Multicultural education
PL
- Imigranci
- Edukacja dla bezpieczeństwa
- Nauczanie
- Edukacja międzykulturowa
- Młodzież
- Studenci
Abstract
EN The problem of increased migration and integration of migrant children in schools has become a serious challenge for Security Education, especially the question of how to teach increasingly varied groups of students and whether students that come from culturally contrasting groups differ in their preferred learning style. This study sets out to analyse how students of various cultural backgrounds approach learning tasks, which is of utmost importance nowadays given that modern schools face the challenge of educating culturally diverse students. To this end, the Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students (ASSIST) was administered to 450 Thai students in a Thai university. Th e correlation between the learning approaches and individual differences (age, GPA and major) was assessed. Then, the results of the study were compared with the results of similar studies carried out in different cultures. The results show that the students scoring higher on the deep approach have the highest academic performance, whereas the students who approach the learning material strategically achieve the lowest learning outcomes. Furthermore, the Thai students did not differ significantly from their western peers (Norwegian, Egyptian, Portuguese and British); however, their results differed from the students from China, who generally scored lower on all subscales of the ASSIST scores. Thus, the findings of the study prove that the integration of migrant children can be highly successful because both migrant and host society students adopt similar approaches and strategies that strive for academic excellence.
Date of online publication
24.09.2017
Pages (from - to)
3 - 19
Comments
Bibliografia na stronach 17-19.
License type
CC BY-NC-ND (attribution - noncommercial - no derivatives)
Open Access Mode
open journal
Open Access Text Version
final published version
Release date
24.09.2017
Date of Open Access to the publication
in press
Ministry points / journal
7
Ministry points / journal in years 2017-2021
7
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