[opeverkosto] Fwd: CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Second Nordic Workshop of Phenomonography in Computing Education Research

>Dear colleagues,
>
>Please, disseminate the following Call for
>proposals for anybody who find the workshop
>interesting.
>
>Regards,
>
>Lauri Malmi
>
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>
>Second Nordic Workshop on Phenomenography in Computing Education Research
>
>Kristianstad, Sweden, 21st May, 2008
>
>Call for proposals
>
>Qualitative approaches have become more and more
>important within the CER domain. They can give
>us a deep insight on students' and teachers'
>work, and help us to identify and better
>understand relevant issues in teaching and
>learning processes, and the variation of
>students'/teachers' attitudes, experiences or
>understandings. The use of phenomenography
>(Marton and Booth, 1997), with its emphasis on
>both the learner (or the teacher) and the object
>of learning (or object of teaching), has become
>particularly successful among the interpretative
>approaches in CER. Phenomenography is an
>approach that lets us go beyond causal
>explanations of social phenomena to understand
>and develop teaching and learning of computer
>science in the complex environments of the
>universities of today. Phenomenographic works
>have in the recent years been presented at most
>international conferences in CER; articles based
>on phenomenographic research are published in
>leading journals within the field. Many projects
>stem, in one way or another, from the Nordic
>countries. The phenomenographic researcher in
>CER, doing interpretative research is, however,
>often working alone, or as a part of a small
>team, in a setting dominated by positivist
>research. The possibilities to discuss subtle,
>or complex, research problems with peers are
>thus limited.
>
>For these reasons, the COMPSER research group at
>Helsinki University of Technology, in
>collaboration with the UpCERG group at Uppsala
>University, organize the second Nordic Workshop
>on Phenomenography in Computing Education
>Research. As in the previous workshop in Uppsala
>in 2007
>(http://www.it.uu.se/research/group/upcerg/WSPhenCER/Programme),
>the aim of this workshop is to discuss: 1)
>on-going work that apply phenomenography in CER
>and, 2) current issues and problems in
>phenomenography that are relevant for Computing
>Education Research. The workshop is thus
>intended as an event where the CER community
>develops its perspective on phenomenography, but
>also where phenomenography can be developed to
>be useful for CER.
>
>Shirley Booth, Lärande Lund, Lund University,
>Sweden and Wits School of Education, University
>of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, will lead a
>key-note discussion titled "Philosophy of
>Teaching: Scholarship versus Plagiarism"
>
>The workshop will take place in Kristianstad
>University, Sweden on 21st May, 2008, as a
>preconference workshop of 9th EARLI SIG,
>Implications of Phenomenography and Variation
>Theory in Practice
>(http://www.distans.hkr.se/sig9/home/EARLI.htm)
>
>If you wish to attend, submit a 2-3 pages long
>proposal that will include the following
>information:
>o An abstract, which should be publishable on
>the web, where we ask you to state (aspects of)
>your current research interest in relation to
>phenomenography. Where have you applied it or
>plan to apply it? What are your research
>questions?
>o Point out some particular issues that you wish
>to discuss during the workshop. These may be
>related to, for example, the formulation of your
>research questions, data collection practices,
>the applicability of phenomenography in your
>research, or could phenomenography be tuned to
>better match your research goals.
>o Comment on your proposal, for example, by
>explaining how you wish to discuss these issues
>during the workshop and why you consider the
>issues important and interesting to the audience.
>o Describe your interest in and previous
>experience of phenomenography in CER or in some
>other field of science.
>
>Participants are thus encouraged to submit
>discussions concerning on-going projects related
>to the workshop theme, research questions,
>methodological problems or new ideas to
>projects. Proposals that focus only on
>presentations of results will not be accepted.
>
>Submit your proposal by email to Lauri Malmi as follows:
>
>To: Lauri.Malmi_at_tkk.fi
>Subject: SUBMISSION to NoPHICER 2008
>
>Include the abstract in the mail body and the
>whole text in PDF as an attachment.
>
>You should get an acknowledgement, within a few
>days - if you do not, contact him again.
>
>Important dates:
>
>Submissions due: April 15th
>Notification of acceptance: April 22nd
>
>Other information
>
>Participants are expected to present and/or
>chair discussions based on their submission. An
>active participation in discussions is
>anticipated. No formal proceedings are printed,
>but abstracts from the proposals are published
>on the web. The workshop participants can
>jointly agree on further publications from the
>event.
>
>There is no fee for the event; lunch and coffee
>is financed by CeTUSS (Centrum för
>TeknikUtbildning i Studenternas Sammanhang),
>Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. Travel
>costs, as well as possible costs for lodging is
>cared for the by the participants. Lodging is
>available on the same conditions as for Earli
>SIG participants.
>
>The workshop is organized by the COMPSER group,
>Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki,
>Finland in collaboration with UpCERG and CeTUSS,
>Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. For more
>information, see conference web site:
>
>http://www.cs.hut.fi/Research/COMPSER/conferences/NoPhiCER2008.html
>
>Program committee:
>
>Lauri Malmi, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland (chair)
>Anders Berglund, Uppsala University, Sweden
>Raymond Lister, UTS Sydney, Australia
>Arnold Pears, Uppsala University, Sweden
>
>Please contact Lauri Malmi, Lauri.Malmi_at_tkk.fi
>or Anders Berglund, Anders.Berglund_at_it.uu.se,
>for further
>information.
>
>
>Welcome
>
>
>Lauri Malmi
>Chair
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>Lauri Malmi, professor
>Helsinki University of Technology,
>Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
>P.O.Box 5400, 02015 HUT, Finland
>email: Lauri.Malmi_at_hut.fi
>puh. +358 - 9 - 451 3236, fax +358 - 9 - 451 3293
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