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20 SES 08 B, Problem Based Learning and Personal Learning
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This paper reports preliminary results from a complex, multi-perspective, national grant-funded research project at the newly established Center for Learning Research at the University of Innsbruck. A research team of 12 doctoral candidates and one post-doc researcher set out to investigate phenomena of personal learning and development of 10-year-olds in their first year at pilot schools in Austria’s highly political reform project “Neue Mittelschule” (NMS), which suspends tracking in lower secondary schools with the emphatic policy goal of raising academic achievement and thereby increasing access to higher education, thus positioning the NMS firmly in the issue of difference, which Mecheril & Plößer (2009) argue constitutes a basic dilemma in educational institutions. Rather than to prove the success of the reform project, this study firmly places research in the reality of everyday school life with the aim of understanding the human experience of learning, its beginning and dramaturgy which can only divulge itself upon closure (Meyer-Drawe 2008). By taking a hermeneutic phenomenological approach, researchers capture the prereflexive, pretheoretical “lived experiences” of learners in the diverse classroom communities of the research sites to reveal learning and related phenomena. This paper presents the analysis of three exemplary extracts in the form of anecdotes from the body of data. The authors attempt to first point to the phenomenon of learning by explicating the essence through eidetic reduction of students’ experiences and, secondly, to point out implications for learning in the context of diversity by applying three methods of thematic analysis and drawing upon related research and understandings of the phenomenon of learning in general. Possible implications for instructional and school development will be indicated in the tension between “doing difference” and “doing inequality”.
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