Leber, Gijs (2024) The role of an EnTranCe learning community facilitator with regards to autonomy support. Master thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Abstract A Learning Community (LC) is defined as an interprofessional team which includes employees, field experts, students and researchers alike, who combine their insight and expertise, while promoting individual and group learning. A key position within LCs is the facilitator, who is responsible for guiding the learning process of the LC group as a whole as well as guiding the learning processes of the individual LC members. One organization in the infant stages of implementing LCs is EnTranCe, Centre of Expertise Energy. The literature shows that it is important to provide autonomy support when guiding a learning process within educational contexts. While not a teacher, the facilitator role also guides learning and is found in an educational context, therefore this case study is intended to uncover what the current role of a facilitator at EnTranCe entails with regards to autonomy support and how this changes over time. This study uses a qualitative design by providing a descriptive analyses of observed LC sessions, processing transcripts of the sessions on autonomy support utterances and using semi-structured interviews. The results show that the facilitator does provide autonomy support to the participants of the LCs, however the majority of autonomy support provided is of a low level (Instruction, providing information or closed questions). Furthermore, except for the levels ‘Providing information’ and ‘Closed/Knowledge-based question’, there is not much change in the levels for autonomy support over or within the sessions. This study provides a first step in exploring whether LC facilitators provide autonomy support, providing a broad overview of the current role of the facilitator. Future research should focus on understanding the difference between an internal and external LC facilitator.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Steenbeek, H.W. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Talent Development and Creativity (TDC) [Master Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Jul 2024 13:56 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Jul 2024 13:56 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3955 |
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