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Would that explain why my bachelor students were so unbelievable inept at emotionally dealing with and resolving conflicts when I taught at university there?
by vanderZwan 6y ago
Would that explain why my bachelor students were so unbelievable inept at emotionally dealing with and resolving conflicts when I taught at university there?
- bjeds 6y agoHaha I don't know where you're from but Swedish people are often stereotypically bad at both dealing with emotions and resolving conflicts. "Van der" = Gonna guess you are Dutch? Well Swedish people are, as you know well yourself, the opposite of the Dutch in how to handle things. Source: My partner is Dutch.
- aerique 6y agoHaha, could you elaborate on that? That sounds like a fun read. disclaimer: I'm Dutch.
- danielscrubs 6y agoDutch and Finnish are known for being frank and to the point which is why they are quite well regarded in Sweden. Swedish is more conflict averse, always trying to protect each other and often failing because what happens is that people read in between the lines instead, which is much worse. disclaimer: I’m Swedish.
- vanderZwan 6y agoYou guessed right! Yeah, I know the stereotypes but the thing is that I already had studied a master in Sweden for two years myself, and thought I had gotten used to communicate "like a Swede", but I still was surprised how much more fragile the bachelor students were than anticipated
- username90 6y agoHow could you learn that from teaching a course? Did you create conflict among student and note how everything became chaos? Or do you just mean that a few complained about grades?
- AdrianB1 6y agoIf the course is interactive and not just a lecture where students listen silently then you can easily observe what is going on. In college we have something called "seminars" where the teacher or teacher assistant work on problems and projects with small groups of students, that is highly interactive.
- vanderZwan 6y agoNeither. It was a design bachelor with group projects. You get to see a lot of interpersonal dynamics, and you also have a lot of direct interactions with your students.
- username90 6y agoI assumed you taught some technical class since this was HN, but if you didn't then I understand since those programs aren't well regarded in Sweden. If it isn't business, medical, law or STEM then it is almost surely ill regarded. I'm not talking badly about those fields in general, just that Sweden doesn't have any good programs for the so the students you get there are really poor.
- vanderZwan 6y agoIt was an Interaction Design bachelor, and I taught programming. Maybe you should stop assuming so much. Also, my goodness, blaming the students for systemic issues in society much?