Budowanie kultury zaufania i wspólnotowości w dydaktyce akademickiej
Building a culture of trust within teaching and learning in university didactics

Author(s): Anna Sajdak-Burska
Subject(s): Education
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: university didactics; social constructivism; experiential learning; trust; feeling of community
Summary/Abstract: What kind of culture dominates the domain of university teaching and learning – a culture of trust or culture of distrust? Higher education praxis of teaching and learning may be governed by one of the two paradigms: a “teaching paradigm” or a “learning paradigm”. The first one requires less trust between a teacher and a learner. The second one needs more trust – especially the learner’s trust in teacher’s competence. Maria Dudzik and her research team argue that in the praxis of Polish university didactics, we can find more distinct features of the “teaching paradigm” than of the “learning paradigm”. That means that in the teaching-paradigm-dominated university education, there is no room for trust-based social-patterns-learning, participation, collaboration, and community building processes. The article presents an example of an original approach drawing on multiple social models and experiential learning in the Kolb’s cycle fostering trust-based social competences development in the course of university education.

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