Practice Laboratory
Purpose
The Practice Laboratory focuses on the origins, development, and transformations of human practices, both from individual and collective perspectives. Primary concerns are to understand the dynamics of practices, with a special interest in interventions and transformations that support development of practices.
The Laboratory meets regularly to discuss (a) the ongoing work of its members, with a special focus on developing theoretical perspectives and practical strategies for investigating practice, and (b) research papers related to its purpose. From time to time, these meetings also include visitors to the laboratory.
The Laboratory is open and interested to cooperate with others who interested in and working on the development of specific practices.
Members
- ways to describe practice
- knowledge production in relation to practices
- dynamics of establishing and sustaining practices
- organisation and individual from practice perspectives
- institutional modality and the development of practices
- practices of school manaement and leadership
- the use of modelling to convey and question key relationships of regulated professional practices
- the use of small group exercises to teach this modelling as part of preparation for practice in a regulated profession
Current Projects
Development of teaching practices in nursing education through 'practice-developing research'
Seth Chaiklin
Theoretical analysis of the practice of preschool teaching
Juliana Pasqualini and Seth Chaiklin
Publications
- Chaiklin, S. (2009, July). Cultural-historical science. Poster presented at the Second UK and Ireland ISCAR Meeting, Worcester, UK.
- Chaiklin, S. (2008, July). Practice-developing research: A cultural-historical approach. Poster presented at the First UK and Ireland ISCAR Meeting, Bath.
- Chaiklin, S. (2007). Forholdet mellem viden og praksis: En vejviser for de desorienteret. In L. Tangaard & S. Brinkmann (Eds.), Psykologi: Forskning og profession. København: Hans Reitzels.
- Chaiklin, S. (2007). Modular or integrated? — An activity perspective for designing and evaluating computer-based systems. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 22, 179-197.
Visitors
2009
- Juliana Pasqualini, UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil, 15 January - 31 July 2009
- Prof. Ray McDermott, Stanford University, 19-20 March 2009
- Prof. Jaakko Virkkunen, University of Helsinki, 26 April - 8 May 2009
- Christine Vassing, University of Copenhagen, 1-3 July 2009
Contact
If you are interested in visiting or want to cooperate with the Practice Laboratory, then you are welcome to contact Seth Chaiklin <s.chaiklin@bath.ac.uk>
Telephone: +44 1225 383357