Work journal
A work journal is a work diary, workshop report or portfolio , generally provisional documentation that is created alongside a work process. Work steps, interim results, data, methodological considerations, hypotheses and questions through to results and theories are entered in a work journal in order to document and control the work process.
application
With the creation of a work journal, a better insight into one's own work and learning or research is intended. It stimulates reflection on learning and enables effective learning strategies to be worked out . At the same time, it has a world-opening effect by making the construction of knowledge visible (see Radical Constructivism ), and increases the ability to judge, because the genesis of knowledge becomes comprehensible ( learning psychological constructivism ). The successively emerging work journals serve as a medium for learning to write, in which students write down their thoughts so that they can be read for themselves and others and objectify structures of meaning that are then archived in the work journal. Therefore, the work journal is also used as an instrument in writing pedagogy.
species
Work journals can be created privately, publicly or dialogically. They accompany the individual or collective learning process and are also used in lessons to support the self-controlled and cooperative learning of the students. The use of dialogical work journals in the classroom can enable the students to experience knowledge as a social phenomenon ( collective knowledge construction ).
The new communication media, especially the Internet, offer the possibility of creating electronically supported work journals (similar to e-portfolios ) that reach many users and facilitate dialogue and cooperation. So z. B. in thematically related or knowledge-oriented internet forums and weblogs , in which the knowledge and thoughts of many participants are entered in order to initiate and document a collective research process (see knowledge commons ).
A distinction must be made here between research-oriented Internet forums, which correspond to work journals, and encyclopedic knowledge platforms such as Wikipedia , which are not used to find theory.
See also
literature
- Gerd Bräuer: Writing as a reflexive practice. Workbook, work journal, portfolio . Publishers Fillibach, Freiburg i. Br. 2000
- Michaela Gläser-Zikuda / Tina Hascher (eds.): Document, reflect and assess learning processes. Learning diary and portfolio in educational research and educational practice . Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2007