The Gap between Knowledge and Belief: Narrative, Affect and Students' Deeper Learning in Higher Education

Autor/inn/en	Banerjee, Mita; Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga
Titel	The Gap between Knowledge and Belief: Narrative, Affect and Students' Deeper Learning in Higher Education
Quelle	In: Studies in Higher Education, 46 (2021) 10, S.2087-2098 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0307-5079
DOI	10.1080/03075079.2021.1953330
Schlagwörter	Student Attitudes; Learning Processes; Decision Making; Cognitive Processes; Higher Education; Information Sources; Internet; Deception; Trust (Psychology); Thinking Skills; Information Literacy; Figurative Language; Affective Behavior; Intervention; Teaching Methods; Task Analysis; Graduate Students; Undergraduate Students; Discourse Analysis; Energy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schülerverhalten; Learning process; Lernprozess; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Information source; Informationsquelle; Täuschung; Denkfähigkeit; Informationskompetenz; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Aufgabenanalyse; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Diskursanalyse; Energie
Abstract	One of the central challenges educators face today, especially in higher education, is the gap between warranted (domain-specific) knowledge and the prior beliefs students hold about certain concepts and phenomena (preconceptions). In the Internet age, students often self-directedly acquire knowledge from an increasingly large number of contradictory sources of information, many of which are biased or untrustworthy. Based on existing research, the study presented here explores the role of narratives in the context of student learning. We draw on an empirical study aimed at assessing students' decision-making, the role of knowledge and belief, and students' narrative competence. The performed qualitative analysis of cognitive interviews in which university students reflected on their information-processing and reasoning indicates that narratives can be central to unsettling the dichotomy between knowledge and belief. Students need to be equipped with the narrative competence to be aware of how narrative framing and metaphors used in texts guide their reasoning and decision-making not only at the cognitive but also at the affective level. After conducting a qualitative analysis of student's answers, we discuss potentials for using narrative methodologies in instructional interventions and fostering students' narrative competence in the higher education classroom. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01