Ph.d. course March 16-17 2010 in Middelfart, Denmark
The Interpretation of Qualitative Data in Mother Tongue Didactic Research
The course is arranged by Nordfag.net, a network under the umbrella of Nordic Network of Mother tongue didactic Research (NNMF). It is funded by NordForsk (www.nordforsk.org) as part of a grant for network activities 2008 through 2011.
The programme runs from Tuesday 16 at 9.00 a.m. till Wednesday 17 at 12.00 a.m. Participants must be in Middelfart in the evening Monday 15 and sleep over. The course language is English.
ECTS points: 3
Maximum number of participants: 20.
Registration on application form by December 1. 2009. Please note that registration is binding.
Deadline for sending in material for the course February 1. 2010. Please send an attached file to ellen.krogh@ifpr.sdu.dk.
The course will be run by
Dr. Irene Pieper, professor in Literature and Literature Didactics at Institut für deutsche Sprache und Literatur, Universität Hildesheim.
Dr. Piet-Hein van de Ven, professor in subject related methodology (Fachdidaktik) and teacher educator in Dutch language and linguistics at the Graduate School of Education, Radboud University Nijmegen.
Irene Pieper and Piet-Hein van de Ven will give opening lectures on methodological questions, taking their departure in student papers handed in for the course. They will contextualize the projects, relating them to mother tongue research in respectively Germany and The Netherlands.
Organizers are Dr. Ellen Krogh, professor, University of Southern Denmark and Laila Aase, associate professor, University of Bergen.
The course will be arranged as a workshop in which students give a short presentation of their projects and an analysis of their data, raising a specific analytical problem or other problems of interpretation. Irene Pieper and Piet Hein van de Ven will respond to presentations and lead workshop discussions on the presented problems. Members of Nordfag.net will take part in discussions.
The final format of the programme will be decided when registration is over and the number of participants is known. As a minimum 45 minutes will be at the disposal for each student session.
For the course participants must hand in
1. A short presentation of their project (in English, max 4 pages), giving research question, arguments for the selection and kind of data, theoretical and methodological frame.
2. Data or concrete problems for discussion. Options:
· A short selection of data (in English)/ alternatively a selection of data in which relevant bits are in English. Data may be excerpts of interviews, student texts etc.
· Problems with establishing categories for analysis (content analysis)
· Other problems of interpretation.
All presentations should raise a question/problem for discussion.
Participants are expected to read all presentations and data material and take part in the workshop discussions.
Any work in progress is welcome, even if it is newly started.
If participants also want to give presentations on the subsequent conference, Tekst og kontekst, they must send in abstracts separately on the relevant application form.