A Study of Media Influences on the Learning Strategies of Students in the First Years of Secondary School by Means of "Subtexts"

"Schüler/innen beziehen einen wachsenden Anteil ihrer Erfahrungen aus der Multimedia-Gesellschaft. Mithilfe eines von der Autorin entwickelten Forschungsinstruments können auf informelle und unkontrollierte Art sog. 'Subtexte des Schulunterrichts' erhoben werden. Ausgehend von diesen 'Subtexten' der Schüler/innen werden unter Hinzuziehung der 'dokumentarischen Methode' (Bohnsack 2003) in einem ersten Analyseschritt 'Habitus' der Schüler/innen ermittelt. Einige dieser 'Habitus' lassen sich in einem zweiten Analyseschritt auf medial modellierte Strategien der Informationsverarbeitung zurückführen, von denen dann explorativ medial vermittelte Lernstrategien abgeleitet werden." (Autorenreferat). "Students' lives are more and more influenced by the media (e.g. television and the Internet). These influences often extend to the learning strategies they use in school. To explore these influences further, the author used a method developed for the task to collect 'subtexts' (comments students make to themselves during regular classroom lessons). These 'subtexts' were collected during lessons in a 6th grade classroom and were subsequently analyzed using the documentary method (Bohnsack, 2003). It was found that some of the collected 'subtexts' were modeled on media prototypes, with these prototypes eventually influencing the learning strategies employed by the students. This relationship is explored." (author's abstract).