COMPSER - Events
Second Nordic Workshop on Phenomenography in Computing Education Research
Kristianstad, Sweden, 21st May, 2008
Call for proposals
Final program is here.
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, 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.
If you wish
to attend, submit a 2-3 pages long proposal that will include the
following information:
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- Describe your interest in and previous experience of phenomenography in CER or in some other field of science.
Submit your proposal by email to Lauri Malmi as follows:
To: Lauri.Malmi_PUT_THIS_AWAY @ 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, coffee and workshop dinner are 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.
One additional option for accomondation is Hotel Hertigen, which is just beside the railway station. However, here there is no special price for the participants. See http://www.hotellhertigen.com/
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
Please contact Lauri Malmi, Lauri.Malmi@tkk.fi or Anders
Berglund, Anders.Berglund@it.uu.se, for further
information.
Welcome
Lauri Malmi
Chair
This page has been updated last on the 28.01.2008.