Conflict management in student groups - a teacher’s perspective in higher education
(2011) In Högre utbildning 1(2). p.111-124- Abstract
- Students working in groups is a commonly used method of instruction in higher education, popularized by the introduction of problem based learning. As a result, management of small groups of people has become an important skill for teachers. The objective of our study is to investigate why conflicts arise in student groups at the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University and how teachers manage them. We have conducted an exploratory interdepartmental interview study on teachers' views on this matter, interviewing ten university teachers with different levels of seniority. Our results show that conflicts frequently arise in group work, most commonly caused by different levels of ambition among students. We also found that teachers prefer to... (More)
- Students working in groups is a commonly used method of instruction in higher education, popularized by the introduction of problem based learning. As a result, management of small groups of people has become an important skill for teachers. The objective of our study is to investigate why conflicts arise in student groups at the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University and how teachers manage them. We have conducted an exploratory interdepartmental interview study on teachers' views on this matter, interviewing ten university teachers with different levels of seniority. Our results show that conflicts frequently arise in group work, most commonly caused by different levels of ambition among students. We also found that teachers prefer to work proactively against conflicts and stress the student’s responsibility. Finally, we show that teachers at our faculty tend to avoid the more drastic conflict resolution strategies suggested by previous research. The outcome of our study could be used as input to future guidelines on conflict management in student groups. (Less)
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- author
- Borg, Markus LU ; Kembro, Joakim LU ; Holmén Notander, Jesper LU ; Petersson, Catarina LU and Ohlsson, Lars LU
- organization
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- Department of Computer Science
- Engineering Logistics
- Mathematics (Faculty of Sciences)
- Mathematical Statistics
- Mathematics (Faculty of Engineering)
- Department of Electrical and Information Technology
- Nano-lup-obsolete (research group)
- Software Engineering Research Group
- ELLIIT: the Linköping-Lund initiative on IT and mobile communication
- publishing date
- 2011
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Conflicts, Group Work, Free-riders, Interview Study, Higher Education
- categories
- Higher Education
- in
- Högre utbildning
- volume
- 1
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 111 - 124
- publisher
- Swednet
- ISSN
- 2000-7558
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 3b21ff8c-7ddb-4f36-a657-406c25fa8b4b (old id 2270096)
- alternative location
- http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/hus/article/view/4923
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- 2016-04-04 09:22:48
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