Pedagogical Approach

The thematic school will be organized according to 4 training approaches.

1. Two introductory conferences (1h30 each) on the use of visual methods in SHS. The first conference will be done by Alain Bouldoires, (University Bordeaux Montaigne) who is the confounder of the Revue Française des Méthodes Visuelles (French Review of Visual Methods - https://rfmv.fr). This presentation will give an account of the evolutive use of visual approaches (photography, movie, visual representations, ..) in the history of human and social sciences. The second speaker will be Jose Aurelio Castro Varela, PhD student at the University of Barcelona. He is a member of the Esbrina research group (Subjectivities, Visualities and Contemporary Learning Environments) (https://esbrina.eu/). His presentation will deal with visual representation tools used to study teachers' learning trajectories, including both formal and informal aspects. 

2. Two workshops on the way to combine different types of empirical data. Each will be organized over a full day (3 hours in the morning, 3 hours in the afternoon) and managed by an international researcher (Ricky Goldman, New-York University and Jeff Bezemer, University College London). They will be organized in 3 phases.

• Presentation of the theoretical and methodological approach of the speaker, centred on the problem of the combination of different types of data  (full group presentation - 1h30) ;
• Data session in small groups: participants will work on data from a multimodal corpus of the speaker  (2x1h30).
• Restitution of the group work and discussion with the researcher (full group - 1h30)

3. Two sessions (2x1h30) about the use of representations in scientific publications based on video data.  During these sessions, facilitated by SFR ViSA researchers, trainees will be invited to analyze representations used in various research articles and discuss new possibilities for representations

4. Three technical workshops organized around 3 themes and according to groups of participants' levels:

• Image and sound recording techniques: which tools (and combination of tools in a research device) is it interesting to use according to an object of study and some material and social constraints? How to ensure a good quality of collected data? What is the role of the aesthetics of images? (workshop managed by Justine Lascar, ICAR research team)
• Use of  software to analyze multimodal corpuses and to combine different types of data:
  • Nvivo (Claudie Bobineau, University of Rouen) 
  • Transana (Daniel Valéro et Andrée Tiberghien, ICAR research team
• Legal and ethical issues for the production of video-reccordings for the research (conferences, restitution to filmed actors, etc.) and their long-term preservation (Laurent Veillard and Emilie Masson)

The language used during the thematic school will be both French (for francophone speakers) and English (for the 3 foreign speakers: Ricky Goldman, Jeff Bezemer and Jose Aurelio Castro Varela)