Open AccessUndergraduate Accounts of the Impact of Lockdown on Their Self-Managed Reflective Development of Graduate Abilities
Author(s) -
John Cowan,
Ellen Doorly,
C Harte,
Damien Madigan,
Keomea O’Connor
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of education and training studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2324-8068
pISSN - 2324-805X
DOI - 10.11114/jets.v8i9.4970
Subject(s) - facilitator , tutor , creativity , mathematics education , teamwork , psychology , principal (computer security) , pedagogy , computer science , management , social psychology , economics , operating system
This account is mostly written by students in the first year of their discipline-based study of civil engineering. It features their self-managed development of graduate abilities in the second semester of an undergraduate Irish course in problem-based civil engineering. The principal abilities were creativity, problem-solving, presentations and teamwork. The case-study paper concentrates upon four students’ reports and reflections on their experiences concerning their second (partially locked-down) semester. Their accounts complement the review of the early weeks of their first semester experience, that has already been published elsewhere. They are joined by the tutor who was an external facilitator of their early drafts of reviews. He suggested the compilation and structure of this paper, and has assisted with the assembly of the condensed individual contributions.