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Course: Meeting children with an enquiring attitude
Research-based learning – teachers explore language learning processes
Admission requirements
STEOP, at least 100 ECTS-CP
Semester: 7
Orientation
Attitude
Focus
Language education / MSP
Aim
This research workshop supports the development and promotion of a research habitus (i.e. as a place for research-based learning and reflection on methods). The inquiring attitude leads to generating and ordering bases for scientific practices and ideas. In particular, the topics and research methods will be discussed using examples in the field of language education, and the students will be encouraged to engage in their own academic discussions. The students learn how to write scientific papers (especially seminar papers, Bachelor’s theses, and later Master’s theses) in relation to their focus areas.
Content
- Scientific knowledge acquisition for practice (including paradigms and attitudes of science, being familiar with, distinguishing, and reflecting on methods, discussing and designing survey instruments, critically reflecting on research objects, developing questions, planning and carrying out a scientific paper, structure of a Bachelor’s thesis, finding of topics, research questions, literature research, citation, research ethics).
- Orientation framework of the researching attitude (including research-led, research-informed, research-based, and research-oriented)
- Development of occupational research questions in the field of language education and multilingualism and corresponding research designs
- Critical examination of the current state of research in multilingualism theory, language acquisition, and language learning and teaching research as well as cultural studies in the process of research-based learning
- Theory- and criteria-based analysis of cultural artefacts (e.g. literature, music, art, dance, and theatre) of learning media and learning products for the development and evaluation of didactic potentials in a multilingual context
- Theory- and criterion-guided examination of case studies on the linguistic development of children in a multilingual context from pedagogical practice as a research and learning process
- Critical examination of scientific findings and the presentation thereof
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The graduates ...
- can use the possibilities of enquiry-based learning and the enquiry-based attitude for their own personal practice and bring their interests into research projects
- can write seminar papers related to the professional field as well as a Bachelor’s thesis according to scientific criteria
- understand why citations are used in scientific texts and master the different citation styles
- can critically reflect on topics of current pedagogical discourse
- are familiar with different research methods and their possibilities for pedagogical practice
- can critically reflect on and select research methods on specific topics and explain their application
- are able to describe and discuss orientations of the research stance
- can present scientific studies in summary form and contribute critical personal opinions
- critically reflect on the current state of research in multilingualism theory, language acquisition, language learning and teaching research, and cultural studies
- develop professional research questions that focus on the linguistic and cultural potential of heterogeneous classes
- are familiar with different research methods for acquiring knowledge for pedagogical practice in the multilingual classroom
- explore the didactic potential of cultural artefacts, learning media, and learning products for language education in a multilingual context in the process of research-based learning
- can analyse the linguistic development of children on the basis of different theoretical approaches and scientific methods using case studies
- can assess subject-specific research approaches and paradigms with regard to their relevance for primary school teaching
- can reflect on the possibilities and limitations of empirical and non-empirical methods in terms of research ethics.
Supra-subject and transversal skills
- Language education
- Intercultural education/multilingualism
- Scientific work
Teaching and learning methods
- Seminar work with research-oriented workshop character
Languages
German, English
Semester hours per week
3
ECTS-AP
5
Category
Focus
Type of course
Research workshop (pi)
Type of assessment
digit grade
Performance records
- Oral partial performance
- Written partial performance
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