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Culture, Identity and Learning: A Mediation Model in the Context of Blogging in Teacher Education Cover

Culture, Identity and Learning: A Mediation Model in the Context of Blogging in Teacher Education

Open Access
|Mar 2019

Abstract

National culture has been an influential framework for comparative and international research. However, current theories suggest that people and societies are rather more complex constructs than their cultural layer. This work is based on a previous study in which, when students from Spain were compared to German students, the former showed higher levels of identity with their blogs and learning impact. The current study is a step forward as it presents the differences in identity and learning impact in blogging between Spanish and Israeli student teachers and offers a mediation model in which the relationship between culture and learning is mediated by the identity factor. The results show that Spanish student teachers feel more identified with their blogs and thus perceive a greater learning impact. Accordingly, this work suggests that blogging could act as learning spaces that may raise students’ identity with their learning products and their self-perceived learning impact.

Language: English
Page range: 51 - 65
Submitted on: Jun 6, 2019
Accepted on: Nov 29, 2019
Published on: Mar 31, 2019
Published by: International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2019 Liat Biberman-Shalev, Gemma Tur, Ilona Buchem, published by International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.