大学生是如何协作探究的——大学通识课程研究性学习的叙事研究

How Do College Students Explore Collaboratively? A Narrative Research on Research-based Learning in University General Education Course

本文采用叙事研究的方法,对中山大学通识课程"现代学习理论与技术"中的小组研究性学习进行了参与式研究。在对四个学生小组的深入观察、调查、访谈与分析的基础上,本研究发现了大学生研究性学习过程中存在的常见困难与问题,如开展研究性学习的积极性不高,选题和定题时面临困难,缺少真正意义上的交流协作,研究缺乏深度等;继而,研究对导致上述现象的原因如传统学习方式、社团活动、课外阅读量、课程性质、小组构成、课程设计等进行了分析,并提出了应加强教师指导、抓住选题和定题的关键阶段和改善课程各项设计等建议。希望本研究对大学生的研究性学习具有一定的启示和借鉴意义。

In this paper,the method of narrative research was used to study the research-based group learning of ＂Theory and Technology of Modern Learning＂,a general course in Sun Yat-sen University.Four groups of students were observed and interviewed.Based on the analysis of collected data,the authors found that the common difficulties and problems existing in the research-based group learning,such as lacking of motivation and enthusiasm,difficulties in finding and determining research topic,insufficiency of real exchanges and cooperation among team members,as well as the lack of in-depth research,etc.The causes that lead to above phenomena,including the traditional learning method,community activities,extracurricular reading load,course nature,group structure,curriculum design etc.,were also analyzed.The authors put forward some comments and suggestions,for example,to enhance the teacher guidance,seize the key links of finding and determining research topic and improve the course design.