So far, so good? New Perspectives on Teaching Research

8.-10.Dezember 2011

Vienna Workshop


Teachers and pupils are fixed components of teaching and thus experience daily what happens in the classroom. Empirical research on teaching has technical and theoretical limitations when attempting to capture such complex occurrences and processes „from the outside“ and dependent on existing perspectives.

Currently, standardised proficiency tests are used whereby pupil performance becomes the expression of the quality of instruction.
From a research point of view, however, the resulting correlations can only be seen as vague assumptions hardly capable of doing justice to the complex processes of instruction.

One difficulty of current research projects on the classroom is that learning and teaching are usually considered to be  onesided and mechanical acts. In the workshop, we postulate that teaching is a complex social situation in which several participants interact at different levels in the learning process. Hence, the focus of our workshop is on the question of how under these circumstances can we find out what happened in the classroom, i.e. how can we as researchers know what went on in the classroom?


Email registration is requested until 17 November 2011: tanja.werkl@univie.ac.at

Um Anmeldung wird gebeten bis 17.November 2011: tanja.werkl@univie.ac.at