Journal Writing and Adult Learning. ERIC Digest - The Diigo Meta page

• 27 Nov 12
  

  Rebecca Doutrich
  • Journals and diaries have a long history as a means of self-expression
  • in which learners record their responses to readings
  • reader response journal or literature log
  • enter the literature in their own voice
  • Usually, entries are shared with the class, stimulating discussion
  • The learning journal
  • is a systematic way of documenting learning and collecting information for self-analysis and reflection
  • The reflective journal
  • is being widely used in the education of health care professionals as an instrument for the development of reflective practitioners
  • facilitate connections between classroom and clinical experience
  • Reflective journals are also used in the preparation of adult educators. Cognitive activities stimulated by this type of journal include observation, speculation, doubt, questioning, self-awareness, problem stating, problem solving, emoting, and ideation
  • The reflective dialog journal becomes a professional conversation between the mentoring teacher educator and the preservice teacher trainee (
  • Electronic journals
  • are being used in distance education and other settings.
  • It reveals thought processes and mental habits, it aids memory, and it provides a context for healing and growth
  • They make thoughts visible and concrete, giving a way to interact with, elaborate on, and expand ideas.
  • Journal entries can provide tangible evidence of mental processes
  • Journals are tools for growth through critical reflection, for it is not enough to observe and record experiences, but "equally important is the ability to make meaning out of what is expressed"
  • text written in the learner's authentic voice, and this personal engagement adds a necessary affective element to the learning process.
  • much of the resistance of Grennan's (1989) students to journal writing was connected to open endedness.
  • A third area of concern is related to privacy and the teacher-learner relationship: "How can you encourage students to write freely and also require them to share what they have written?"
  • n the roles of coach, mentor, and dialog partner, adult educators can serve as the "seasoned traveler" steering adult learners to document their learning journey through journal writing

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• 04 Nov 09
  

  Silvia Sa

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• 09 Jun 09
  

  Michelle Krill

  This digest focuses on several types of journals, exploring their value in assisting adults through their learning journey and summarizing advice from the literature on effective ways to use journals.

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  • journal writing is closest to natural   speech, and writing can flow without self-consciousness or inhibition. It   reveals thought processes and mental habits, it aids memory, and it provides a   context for healing and growth.
  • Journals are tools for growth through critical reflection, for it is not  enough to observe and record experiences, but "equally important is the ability  to make meaning out of what is expressed"
  • The journal  becomes another text on which to reflect, but it is a text written in the  learner's authentic voice, and this personal engagement adds a necessary  affective element to the learning process.
  • Holt concluded   that either the guiding questions they were given did not motivate reflection or   they did not know how to write reflectively.

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• 21 Apr 09
  

  Sandy Bielinski-Rice

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  Stan Skrabut

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