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grad student supervision
update: MAY-18-22
My responsibility as university faculty member included working with graduate students to allow them to become part of a community of scholars. Of course, working with others is nearly
impossible if the graduate students' research is outside the domain of the supervisor. Graduate students who joined my team work on problems and research topics closely aligned with the laboratory's topics, to a great part determined by the grants that fund our research.
To agree to supervising someone, the potential graduate student had to commit to write, under my close guidance, a series of publishable articles. MA students wrote about 3 articles (which they also present at national and international conferences whereas doctoral students generally wrote 4-6 research articles for publication. In some form, these articles constituted the body of their thesis, and are complemented by introduction, theory, method, and conclusion/implication chapters that the student writes on his/her own.
.Here you find a description of my research team, past and present, and some of the projects they are (have been) working on and the publications that issued from them.
Some of the topics that had been researched
- Learning transitions in different settings How do people learn in different settings such as in schools and workplaces? What are mechanisms allowing people to make transitions successful?
- Cultural resources for talking science What are cultural resources for supporting science talk?
- Theorizing teaching and learning What are theoretical concepts that can authentically capture the praxis of teaching and learning?
- Emotion as resource and outcome of social interaction The sociology of emotion; tracking emotions via prosodic features
- Gestures and prosody as interactional resources How are gestures and prosody (pitch, speech rate, pitch contour, F1, speech intensity [volume] used as resources for conducting interactions, for producing context and text?
- Levels of competence in scientific representation (e.g., graphing, using averages) from elementary to high school levels Paper-and-pencil testing and video taping of pairs of students as they work on selected tasks.
- Learning from laboratory activities For example, how is it possible that students engage in hands-on activities and learn something that we usually ascribe to mental qualities?
- Learning in communities What are the mechanisms by means of which individuals learn within communities? How does what one person knows come to be shared by another? What are the processes by means of which individual situated cognition is coordinated to bring about what might be referred to as social cognition?
- Developing competence in ecology What are the mechanisms by means of which individuals become competent in ecological issues? This competence
could be that of an ecologist, a First Nations person and his/her traditional ecological knowledge, or that of an environmental activists. How is the competence a function of the culture in which individuals participate?
- Examination of teaching through the eyes of the teacher That is, what is it that makes praxis so different from considering teaching theoretically?
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