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Dear all, <br>
Discourse analytical approaches, ethnographic discourse analysis,
etc. are all very welcome at the summer school.<br>
All the best, <br>
Felicitas <br>
<br>
Call for Papers<br>
International Summer School<br>
of the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research<br>
<br>
<b>Actors – Texts – Practices: New Approaches to Educational Media
Research</b><br>
<br>
Brunswick, Germany, 10 Sept. – 14 Sept. 2012<br>
<br>
The Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research
invites applications from doctoral candidates and post-doctoral
scholars from the humanities and social sciences working with
textbooks and/or other educational media to participate in the third
GEI International Summer School.<br>
<br>
Recently textbook research has been subject to an ‘empirical turn’;
it has broadened and diversified its scope to adopt
transdisciplinary and praxeological approaches from the social
sciences and cultural studies. These new approaches place more
weight on examining textbooks and other educational media in the
contexts of their production, alteration and reception, and on the
actors and discourses shaping them. Accordingly, contemporary
educational media research includes a wealth of qualitative and
quantitative methods such as ethnographical classroom studies,
interviews, discourse analysis, etc. The GEI Summer School 2012
seeks to investigate these developments further by using diverse
empirical methodology to focus on the various actors, texts and
practices relating to educational media. <br>
<br>
The summer school thus pursues three interrelated aims. Firstly, it
seeks to broaden the participants’ understanding of current theories
and methodologies and to explore new directions in educational media
research inspired by the empirical turn. Secondly, it will
constitute a transdisciplinary and international forum in which to
discuss key research questions in an open and constructive
atmosphere, ideally applying new methodologies to the participants’
own research projects. Thirdly, it aims to consolidate and develop
further an expanding network of young scholars researching
educational media in a variety of disciplines and with diverse
methodologies, also with a view to future collaboration. <br>
<br>
Methods and approaches will be presented and discussed in five
panels and corresponding workshops on the following topics: <br>
<br>
Actors and Experts involved in educational media: their role and
influence in economic, political, and cultural processes. How are
experts and expertise socially constructed and negotiated, which
power relations develop within advisory contexts, and how do experts
contribute to the circulation of knowledge about educational media?
<br>
<br>
New approaches to textbook analysis in the light of the linguistic
and visual turns: What analytical opportunities open up from a
broadened concept of ‘text’? What is conveyed by illustrations in
educational media and how can we analyse their use? How do texts and
images in these media correlate and correspond, if at all? <br>
<br>
Biographical research: teachers as mediators of the textbook and
curriculum. To what extent do biographical experiences of teachers
shape school instruction and do these affect didactic aspects? How
do teachers deal with the institutional requirements for teaching
the more sensitive topics or recent periods of history that they
have experienced themselves, and how effective are institutionally
prescribed interpretations of history?<br>
<br>
Focus group approaches: Which opportunities are presented by focus
group discussions as an approach that is both reconstructive and
interactive? Which underlying semantics can be identified
particularly well with this method, and where are its limitations? <br>
<br>
Participant observation: How do children and young people use
educational media in social situations, including those outside the
classroom? What are the differences in textual control and authority
between interviews and participant observation scenarios? What are
the limitations involved in observing the behaviour of children?<br>
<br>
The working language of the summer school will be English.
Accommodation and travel costs for participants will be reimbursed
(subject to funding). <br>
<br>
Application deadline: 1 December 2011<br>
<br>
Doctoral candidates and post-doctoral scholars are invited to submit
abstracts of no more than one page, together with a cv and
publication list as one pdf file (file name: last name, first name;
3 MB max.) to: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:summerschool@gei.de">summerschool@gei.de</a><br>
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Dr. Felicitas Macgilchrist<br>
- wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin | Research Fellow -<br>
Georg-Eckert-Institut fuer internationale Schulbuchforschung<br>
Celler Str. 3<br>
D-38114 Braunschweig<br>
<br>
Tel. +49 (0)531 123 103-225<br>
Fax. +49 (0)531 590 99-99<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gei.de/en/fellows-and-staff/dr-macgilchrist.html">http://www.gei.de/en/fellows-and-staff/dr-macgilchrist.html</a><br>
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