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Monographs on teacher.. 9808 v5 - Umeå universitet

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LISBETH LUNDAHLTOM POPKEWITZIntroducti<strong>on</strong>Since 1993, a Swedish governmental grant made possible a collaborativearrangement between <strong>Umeå</strong> University and The University of Wisc<strong>on</strong>sin-Madis<strong>on</strong>.The arrangement was to provide scholarly exchangesbetween the two faculty and graduate students. One aspect of theexchange was to have faculty visit the campus of the other instituti<strong>on</strong>and give seminars related to their <strong>on</strong>going students. Almost thirty facultyfrom the two universities have given such seminars at the otherinstituti<strong>on</strong>s campus and spent at least a week to work with faculty andgraduate students. The exchange has also involved joint symposia at theAmerican Educati<strong>on</strong>al Research Associati<strong>on</strong>´s annual meetings andparticipati<strong>on</strong> in the Thematic Network <strong>on</strong> Teacher Educati<strong>on</strong> in Europe(TNTEE).In 1996-97, the collaborative agreement extended its intellectualinterchange to a seminar for graduate students of the two instituti<strong>on</strong>s.Two seminars were organized to bring together graduate students fromeach of the instituti<strong>on</strong>s. One was held in <strong>Umeå</strong> in December, 1996 andthe sec<strong>on</strong>d <strong>on</strong>e in Madis<strong>on</strong> during April, 1997. The two of us wereresp<strong>on</strong>sible for coordinating the meetings.The purpose of the two seminars was simple. It was to put studentsin a resp<strong>on</strong>sible intellectual positi<strong>on</strong> in which they would have toarticulate the ideas of their research, to make the theoretical positi<strong>on</strong>savailable and understandable, and to maintain a high level of c<strong>on</strong>ceptualand methodological discussi<strong>on</strong>. Our purpose was also to engage in across nati<strong>on</strong>al c<strong>on</strong>versati<strong>on</strong> to examine our collective norms of educatingand reading to c<strong>on</strong>sider similarities and differences.The graduate students prepared papers that represented their <strong>on</strong>goingresearch projects. The papers would be written in a manner that wouldallow serious discussi<strong>on</strong> of the ideas and approaches taken in their dissertati<strong>on</strong>program. But the seminar papers were to reflect a differentkind of writing than that of writing a paper for a class. Students weretold that the intent was to prepare a paper that would be eventually7

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