School Reform and Students' Perspectives on Teaching

• In Event: 26.060 - Learning Environments Designed to Improve Schooling: A Collection of Mixed-Methods Studies

Abstract

The move towards so-called "student-centred" and "informal" teaching methods was intended to break routines and create a new culture of learning in schools.
Within the framework of an evaluation project of a new school type in secondary I in Austria, the present paper examines how pedagogical innovations are perceived from the student perspective, and how students’ impressions change over time.
The analysis of the quantitative data of a longitudinal study and the results of participatory evaluation research show that as students progress through their grades they value collaborative learning and working in open education more and more, although this is mostly observed at the secondary entry level. The stories of the students reveal very traditional school experiences.

Authors

• Corinna Geppert, University of Vienna

• Helene Juliana Feichter, Karl-Franzens-University Graz