Is Globalisation Changing Students' Learning?

Abstract

The aim of this research was to investigate whether learning happens in different contexts in culturally distinctive ways or whether under the influence of technology and globalized approaches to pedagogy students' knowledge acquisition happens in a similar way. Three groups of English teacher education students were involved in this research, two in two different European countries and one in Australia. The research revealed that the geographic location at which the students gained their education and their educational experiences, and the technology utilized in their learning played a more significant role in the way they constructed the conditions for their learning and their knowledge than their ethnic and cultural background.