[opeverkosto] Call for proposals: Second Nordic Workshop on Phenomenography in Computing Education Research

Dear colleagues,

I wish to remind you about the following workshop.

Regards,

Lauri

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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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