ERIC Number: EJ1111122
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
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"What's in It for Me?" A Study on Students' Accommodation or Resistance during Group Work
Forslund Frykedal, Karin; Samuelsson, Marcus
Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, v60 n5 p500-514 2016
This article explores students' accommodation and resistance while participating in group work. The data collected are from fieldwork observations in several classrooms over the course of four terms in different secondary school classes in Sweden, and also from interviews with the students. Through this data analysis, we report that the students accommodated for such reasons as amusement, compliance, fulfilling expectations, and striving for high marks. The reasons for students' resistance were blending, inability, stage fright, and vagueness. Macro-sociological concepts from Ziehe's cultural theory were used to capture explanations for students' behaviour in order to understand why students, on a micro-sociological level, accommodate or resist when using group work as a learning mode. On the basis of results, three models of interpretation were developed, namely, individual, institutional, and structural.
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Groups, Student Attitudes, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, Data Analysis, Compliance (Psychology), High Achievement, Grades (Scholastic), Anxiety, Expectation, Student Behavior, Models, Group Dynamics, Individual Characteristics, Semi Structured Interviews, Participant Observation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden
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