Using learning portfolios to investigate students' understanding of positive leadership and their experience with teamwork.

Autor/in	Bittner, Janine
Titel	Using learning portfolios to investigate students' understanding of positive leadership and their experience with teamwork.
Quelle	Aus: The Korean conference on education (KCE2024). The 2024 IAFOR autumn conference series in Incheon, October 28 - November 1, 2024, Incheon, South Korea & Online. Official conference proceedings. Naka Ward, Nagoya, Aichi: The International Academic Forum (2024) S. 571-584 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (3) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Sammelwerksbeitrag
ISSN	2759-7563
DOI	10.25656/01:32687 10.22492/issn.2759-7563.2024.45
URN	urn:nbn:de:0111-pedocs-326873
Schlagwörter	Inhaltsanalyse; Führungsanspruch; Vorstellung (Psy); Reflexion (Phys); Führungskompetenz; Portfolio; Student
Abstract	This paper examines students' understanding of good leadership and successful teamwork. I used learning portfolios as a reflection tool for bachelor students in geography who participated in a community-based research course, which was combined with elements of service-learning. The learning portfolios consisted of seven reflection-stimulating key questions, which were answered in writing by the 15 participants after completion of the course. These key questions were raised on the students' perceptions of good leadership, successful project work and individual teamwork components, such as the organisation of decision-making processes and dealing with risks. The focus of the paper will be on the first mentioned points. Here, the students had the opportunity to reflect on their own experiences about the role(s) taken on, tasks performed and collaboration with team members of the course, to place the results on a meta-level. This reflection enabled a sustainable learning process. I chose qualitative content analysis as a widely used qualitative data analysis technique to code the text material from the learning portfolios. The data analysis approach was inductive. About the idea of good leadership, the most frequent categories are "taking responsibility for others", "organisational skills, having an overview of the process", "high degree of expertise", "friendly appearance", "adequate handling of team dynamics" and "the need for consistent behaviour". About the question of which key factors contribute to the success of work in project teams, the most frequent categories are "good communication", "equitable division of tasks" and "respectful interaction with each other". (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2025/3