Methodological Reflections within Educational Research: Turkish and Swedish Perspectives

Workshop/Research Exchange Programme

Methodological Reflections within Educational Research: Turkish and Swedish Perspectives

23-24 May 2008, İstanbul

İstanbul University,

Faculty of Political Sciences,

Faculty Hall (Fakülte Kurul Odası)

23 May 2008

10.00-10.30:    Opening-Information about Faculty of Political Sciences

10.30-11.30:    Session 1

Presentation of Ongoing Research Projects

(Faculty of  Political Sciences)

Chair: Fatmagül Berktay

-          Ahmet Bekmen: Regulating the labour relations globally: Global commodity chains and codes of conduct .

-          Eylem Özdemir: The effects of cultural difference on political behaviour.

-          Gürkan Öztan: Political construction of childhood in the Ottoman period: From 1839 to 1918.

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11.30-11.45:    Coffee break

11.45 -12.10:   Hakan Güneş: Central Asian Islam versus radical Islam.

12.10- 12.30:   Discussion

12.30-14.00:    Lunch

14.30-15.45:    Session 2

Chair: Elisabet Ohrn

-          Tuba Kancı: Women, nation and the state: An analysis of primary school textbooks in Turkey

-          Önder Küçükural: Moralist and nationalist discourses among high school students in Turkey

15.45-16.00:    Coffee Break

16.00- 16.30:   Kertsin von Brömssen: “That is sin, don’t you think?”

16.30-17.00:    Discussion

 Swedish Research Institute, İstanbul

24 May 2008

10.00-10.30:    Coffee

10.30-12.00:    Session 3

Chair: Marie Carlson

-          Elisabet Öhrn: The sound of silence – on absence (and presence) in the field of gender and education.

-          Fatmagül Berktay and İnci Kerestecioğlu: The importance of informal      education in overcoming gender and social injustice: The case of Kamer.

-          Nil Mutluer: Contested masculinities in everyday İstanbul city life: Civil, political institutions and culture centers in Tarlabaşı as learning centers.

12.00-12.30:    Discussion

12.30-14.00:    Lunch

14.00-15.30:    Session 4

Chair: Kerstin von Brömssen

-          Marie Carlson: “Are you going to write as we think or as you think”: On(re)presentation and the construction of knowledge in interviews.

-          Nazan Maksudyan: Industrial education for the orphans: ‘Reform’ in the late Otoman Urban Space: 1864-1908.

-          Setenay Nil Doğan: Educating the “others”.

15.30-16.00:    Discussion

16.00-16.30:    Coffee/snacks/ Good bye!

Note: Presentations are planned to be about 20 minutes each.