UC Berkeley talk of potential interest

[Greta Vollmer]

NOTE CHANGE OF PLACE. WE WILL MEET IN THE BEACH ROOM IN THE
PSYCHOLOGY WING.
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Video Capture and Analysis as a Practical Schedule of Work

Rogers Hall
Cognition and Development & Social and Cultural Studies
Graduate School of Education
UC Berkeley

My aim in this talk is to describe a (not the) "practical schedule of
work" involving video capture and analysis, building my description
on top of a couple of papers concerning strategies for recording in
field research (Schatzman & Strauss, 1973) and theoretical
commitments underlying how video recordings are made (Hall, 2000;
borrowing concepts from Ochs, 1979). This will involve opening up
behind the scenes work that spans the gap between (i) film records
and written notes, taken at a particular moment in some ongoing
research project, and (ii) accounts of interaction, learning, and
development that make their way into the published literature. I also
want to consider how digital video (hardware and software) might
support or extend this kind of practical work, showing some of my own
(fairly limited) efforts in this area and, if time permits, reviewing
products from recent work at TERC (Nemirovsky & Carraher, 2000).

References

Hall, R. (in press). Schedules of practical work for the analysis of
case studies of learning and development. Journal of the Learning
Sciences. Special issue on "Methodologies for capturing learner
practices occurring as part of dynamic learning environments," S.
Barab and D. Kirshner (Eds.).

Hall, R. (2000). Video recording as theory. In D. Lesh & A. Kelley
(Eds.) Handbook of Research Design in Mathematics and Science
Education (pp. 647-664). Mahweh, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Nemirovsky, R. & Carraher, D. (2000). Videopapers in mathematics
education. Cambridge, MA: TERC.

Ochs, E. (1979). Transcription as theory. In E. Ochs and B. B.
Schieffelin (Eds.), Developmental pragmatics (pp. 43-72, and
references 415-429). New York: Academic Press.

Schatzman, L. and Strauss, A.L. (1973). Field research (pp. 94-107).
Strategy for recording. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc.



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