Video Research Seminar: Insights and Challenges in video research

DATE: 22-23 May 2008
VENUE: University of Helsinki, Siltavuorenpenger 10, Room 224

Keynote presentations by Professor David Clarke, Melbourne Graduate School of Education and Fritjof Sahlström, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.

Introduction
This workshop brings together educational researchers who use video in their scholarly work. The workshop aims to act as a platform for knowledge exchange and knowledge generation on the successes and challenges researchers have confronted who have used video as a part of their inquiries. This concerns ethical issues in video research, the practicalities in conducting video research in diverse settings, including formal and informal settings, as well as video analysis tools and methods. The workshop is likely to network researchers and research groups while they discover joint interests and endeavours.

The workshop builds on and furthers the dialogue which begun last year in June 2007 in a similar event hosted by the interdisciplinary research network, CICERO Learning Network at the University of Helsinki. The workshop is targeted for a diverse audience including professors, lecturers, graduate students and anyone who is interested in how knowledge is expanded using video-based methods and technologies for inquiries in educational research.

The language of the workshop is English.

Submission of abstracts
You are welcome to share your experiences of conducting video research at the workshop. You can send us a title and an abstract (max. 600 words) of your proposed presentation. All abstracts will be distributed in the event as part of the workshop material.

Registration and submission of abstracts: cicero@cicero.fi
Deadline: 13.5.2008

Programme
Thursday, 22.5.
9.00 Registration and coffee
9.30 Welcome
Professor Kristiina Kumpulainen, Director, CICERO Learning
9.40 Infrastructure practicalities - supporting contemporary classroom research on an international scale
Professor David Clarke, the University of Melbourne, Australia
11.00 Access All Areas? Practical challenges and possibilities in fieldwork and analysis when following children in- and outside school.
Associate Professor Fritjof Sahlström, University of Helsinki
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Presentations
15.00 Coffee
15.15 Presentations
16.45 Summarizing reflections
Professor Leena Krokfors, University of Helsinki
Professor Patrik Scheinin, University of Helsinki
Professor Kristiina Kumpulainen, CICERO Learning
17.15 Reception

Friday, 23.5.
10.00 Coffee and Opening Words
Professor Kristiina Kumpulainen, Director, CICERO Learning
10.20 Possibilities and challenges in international comparative classroom research - Structure and Instruction
Professor David Clarke, the University of Melbourne, Australia
12.10 Discussion
Chair: Professor Kristiina Kumpulainen, Director, CICERO Learning