Workshopping as collective thinking and doing – tracing students’ academic writing in higher education

Kuvaus

This paper presents and discusses methodological considerations on workshopping as collective thinking and doing when tracing students’ academic writing in higher education. It is contextualized in the research project CO-WRITE (2025–2027), which explores students’ collaborative academic writing in hybrid learning spaces in higher education. The subproject that this paper more particularly builds on explores what students use in their academic writing, how they use it, and why, understanding academic writing as created in relations between humans and non-humans through thinking with posthuman and sociomaterial theories (e.g., Barad, 2007; Latour, 2005). Rather than performing the data generation as a process of eliciting student responses about what they use, how they use it, and why, four workshops were enacted with the purpose that the research participation could become valuable for the students (cf. Kara, 2015). The intention was that something of value might emerge not only for the research but also for the students themselves. Altogether, 30 students in educational, political, and caring sciences participated in the workshops (2,5 h/workshop) and were tasked with mapping and discussing their academic writing processes, based on questions from the researchers. . Data includes audio–recorded conversations and text/maps on paper from the workshops. In this paper presentation, we discuss methodological considerations, potentials, and challenges with the workshop design, focusing particularly on the collective mapping as a material and embodied research-creation process.

Aikajakso	16 tammik. 2026
Tapahtuman otsikko	European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry : Global Flows, Connections, Dialogues and Collaborative Practices in Challenging Times
Tapahtuman tyyppi	Konferenssi
Konferenssinumero	9
Sijainti	Athens, KreikkaNäytä kartalla
Tunnustuksen arvo	Kansainvälinen