ViSA Days 2017
LIRDEF is organizing the upcomingViSA conference atthe Faculty of Education of the University of Montpellier on March 30 and 31, 2017
How to get to the School of Education in Montpellier:
From the Montpellier St Roch train station: Take tram line 1 toward Mosson and get off at the Stade Philippidès stop
From the airport: take the shuttle to the Place de l’Europe stop, then take tram line 1 toward Mosson to the Stade Philippidès stop
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How and why should we combine “filmed observation” with other types of data to construct a “field” and understand the complexity of professional practices?
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To study professional practices in various fields (education, healthcare, sports) while fully grasping their complexity, researchers very often film the professional situations that interest them (teaching-learning situations, training and mentoring of interns, sports practices, healthcare, etc.) using a specific framing (close-up and/or wide shot) and a chosen perspective (external and/or subjective) deemed relevant to their subject of study. They very often supplement this video collection with other data: documents, observation notes, and/or various types of interviews with the participants, which may also be recorded on video (simple and/or cross-confrontation, instruction to a look-alike, explication, ethnographic, comprehensive, or semi-structured interviews…).
- Does video data recorded during work situations have the same status as other data?
- How are choices and connections between methods conceived and implemented within a single discipline? Under what conditions are such connections possible?
- Can we envision multidisciplinary methodological approaches (e.g., combining didactic approaches, activity-based approaches, and language-based approaches) and possibly interdisciplinary ones that could lead to the development of joint projects? What would be the benefits and limitations of such approaches?
To this end, and to achieve other goals typically pursued within ViSA, these workshops will focus on three complementary dimensions:
- Training: sessions aimed at researchers (or aspiring researchers) who wish to use video in their research, as well as the ViSA database (submission and requests);
- Epistemological and methodological: lectures addressing issues related to the types of supplementary data collected alongside a video corpus;
- Experiential: lectures or workshops focused on presenting (or discussing) research conducted by research teams.