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Teaching/learning in a students’ hotchpotch
World Maritime University, Malmö, Sweden .
2009 (English)In: Bulletin of Education & Research, E-ISSN 0555-7747, Vol. 31, no 1Article in journal (Other academic) Published
Abstract [en]

This article is a summary of 15 years working onboard merchant ships with a multicultural crew complement, 25 years on the rostrum at World Maritime University in Malmö, and my Licentiate dissertation. These circumstances have awakened in me an interest in how people with different cultures manage to cooperate, reach consensus decisions and are able to understand and learn from each other and in the classroom. The latter prompts the question how it is possible to learn in an environment with many different teaching styles together with colleagues having equally different cognitive styles. Cognition varies, but how does the individual assimilate a wide variety of teaching styles as well as the different cultures and way of thinking and talking of colleagues?  This article aims to pass on findings from data gathered in a study carried out at my workplace using students and teachers outside my office. It has become a special concern today to understand how a group of people comprising different genders and different cultures can work together and learn together. In shipping it has become even more important because of its global nature since crews are seldom from the same nationality but comprise a mixture of people from almost the entire world. Teachers and students world-wide need culture awareness training in order to interact painlessly and communicate effectively. A student’s life at the four walls of the hostel-room and the World Wide Web (www) as the best friend is a recipe for withdrawal and misery. This article will encourage cultural awareness education and cultural sensitivity training at, in particular, education institutions for mariners. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Education & Research , 2009. Vol. 31, no 1
Keywords [en]
multiculture, crewing, education, diversity
National Category
Educational Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-36950OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-36950DiVA, id: diva2:1503655
Available from: 2020-11-25 Created: 2020-11-25 Last updated: 2024-05-06Bibliographically approved
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1. Meeting diversities in maritime education. A blend from World Maritime University
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Meeting diversities in maritime education. A blend from World Maritime University
2010 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

To address a diversified student complement in academic studies is becoming more and more frequent in maritime education and training. Diversity challenges are also the reality onboard ships that muster a multicultural crew complement. This thesis aims at creating awareness on dilemmas and challenges that students and faculty meet when working in a multicultural environment. In order not to have students academically suffering from environments that they are not used to, there are several issues identified, generated and discussed. If these issues are not adhered to, perhaps the students’ academic performance would not accurately reflect the students’ capability to absorb new knowledge. In extension: from cultural awareness and better communication will follow reduced mistakes and increased safety onboard ships. The empirical data in this study is generated from conversations with the faculty of World Maritime University. The theory in this thesis is Bronfenbrenner’s ecology of human development and two strategies or methods have been used to analyse the conversations: phenomenography and discourse psychology. A conclusion drawn from the conversations is that when students and professors have a diversified background the pedagogy has to be different compared to addressing a culturally homogenous class complement. When also women commence to take up studies in maritime subjects, an education traditionally male dominated, it presents new challenges for the facilitators of information and knowledge. The conditions that the faculty and students meet in such constellations, most probably, can have an impact on behaviour, performance and study results. One important solution to above dilemmas is found to be offering faculty and students courses in cultural awareness. This would be a recommendation to any worldwide maritime education and training institution ready to serve the shipping industry. Another conclusion is to have faculty and students to attend courses in pedagogy (andragogy). These two major conclusions would contribute to an uplift to achieve an even better effect from students’/professors’ encounter in the class room.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Malmö högskola, 2010
Series
Malmö Studies in Educational Sciences: Doctoral Dissertation Series, ISSN 1651-4513 ; 54
Keywords
Education, multi-cultural, culture, multi-language, language, IMO, WMU, maritime, pedagogy, Bronfenbrenner, MET
National Category
Pedagogy
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-7568 (URN)10143 (Local ID)978-91-86295-05-9 (ISBN)10143 (Archive number)10143 (OAI)
Available from: 2020-02-28 Created: 2020-02-28 Last updated: 2022-06-27Bibliographically approved

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