Learning to Play the Seminar Game: Students' Initial Encounters with a Basic Working Form in Higher Education

Autor/inn/en	Fejes, Andreas; Johansson, Kristina; Dahlgren, Madeleine Abrandt
Titel	Learning to Play the Seminar Game: Students' Initial Encounters with a Basic Working Form in Higher Education
Quelle	In: Teaching in Higher Education, 10 (2005) 1, S.29-41 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1356-2517
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Seminars; Social Sciences; Masters Programs; Graduate Students; Student College Relationship; Foreign Countries; Interpersonal Communication; Educational Environment; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Seminar; Social science; Sozialwissenschaften; Gesellschaftswissenschaften; Magister course; Magisterstudiengang; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Ausland; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Schweden
Abstract	This paper investigates students' initial encounters with the seminar as a working form in higher education. The main interest was to explore how the communication pattern, the aim of the seminar and meaning were negotiated. The results originate from an ethnographic field study where we followed a group of students in a Masters program in Social Science during their first five weeks. Data were analyzed from a socio-cultural perspective and the concepts of participation and reification. We found that there was an implicit negotiation of the communication pattern, what to discuss and the function of the seminar. In these processes, the students and teacher participated in the negotiation of meaning. Different objects were created through a reification process, around which the negotiation of meaning took place. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10