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ED 2203
Question 1
Marking Blog: http://www.berniebou.wordpress.com/
Discuss 5 key issues that you had to struggle to get this project to work?
- Time – we struggled to make time to see each other person to person. As a contingency we used the previous tutorial meetings to think and collaborate with each other. There we planed to meet deadlines of what work needs to be done. It was not until the last week were it all came together; yet we kept lengthening the deadlines. The Wiki was last updated the day before it was due and it still is incomplete.
- Place – It only occurred to us that not everyone in the group was in the same tutorial. So we only had two tutorials were we had a physical place to met. As a contingency we shared each other’s e-mail address. We met mostly online throughout the study week. The worst part was two of the three members were not talking to each other. So I had to liaise with them both. It was hard because they were acting stubborn and refusing to meet and discuss.
- Communication between 3 people – as I was the one person who was liaising between them, I found that they refused to speak to each other. They had all the technology to be able to i.e: phone, internet, e-mail, facebook. One member would rather tell me how mad they are about the other member, while that other member would rather tell me how clueless they felt. So between trying to get my own work done and delegating what each person should do we waisted time that they could have been able to take care of themselves.
- Assignment topic- it was easy to choose the subject of Religious Education because collectively it is our major. It took bargaining and looking past stubbornness to figure out what topic we specifically wanted to create the assignment on. As a result we chose ‘Prayer’ because it was the easier topic and it resonated with our other subjects.
- Information – Matching what each person was to do for their section of work was harder. It was a struggle to see what information we wanted to put in. Organising who was going to take care of the information that is presented to on the wiki – i don’t think we edited out wok
Evaluate the worth of collaborative nature of this project in light of motivation that comes from within the person.
Dreikurs’ principles of Democratic Discipline
His theory states there are four reasons why a student will misbehaves
(1) Attention seeking,
(2) Power seeking,
(3) Revenge seeking and
(4) Avoiding failure
Our group’s main cause of misbehaviour surrounded the notion of Avoidance of failure. We had a common goal which was to creat a wiki and make sure it was handed in before the exam.
We can state that our group used Democratic Principles because of the nature of how our group worked together. Though they may not have spoken to each other as much we were firm and stuck to our responsibilities of completing the delegated tasks. Though after the task was complete we did not edit it to be exceptional . as a motivation we had to use Dreikurs’ theory of motivation. That is, we encouraged each other to go back and fix our work. The theory could only work so much. This is because in the end I felt like I was nurturing everyone too much and not being able to preform to the best of my ability. I should not have taken on the leadership role because they assumed it was me.
The democratic choice theory is ‘workable’ in the sense that has they not had the choices to do as they please there would have been a greater power struggle in the group and as the assumed leader I would have had to take care of useless arguments.\
So Dreikurs’ theory did work to a certain extent.
As the liaison, I made sure that we were all on speaking terms with each other.
The democratic process seemed to have work because in the end the assignment was complete due to common goal of the fear of failure. They learnt to respect their responsibilities due to the collaborative nature of the assignment and the consequences if they did not do it.
The Prevention idea is extremely useful. Having to be flexible meant that everyone had a say and it kept the motivation high.
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