QUINT Conference 2023: University of Helsinki
The fourth QUINT conference 'Teaching Quality & Teacher-Researcher Collaboration: Opportunities, Obstacles & Orientations' will bring together world leading scholars with a keen interest in discussing the many aspects of measuring teaching quality, 30 May - 2 June, Finland. Registration deadline 18 April.
Research focus
This year's conference “Teaching Quality & Teacher-Researcher Collaboration: Opportunities, Obstacles & Orientations” aims to bring together early career researchers and the world-leading scholars to explore ways to strengthen teacher-researcher collaboration within the area of teaching quality relevant to improve teacher education and teachers’ continuous learning. With the goal of improving teaching quality, high quality teacher education and professional development is decisive.
Research on how to improve teaching – both in teacher education and through professional development – is increasingly agreeing on some quality indicators for programme design and pedagogies for teacher learning. However, the field has also been described as sprawling and contested, constituting different theoretical and methodological lenses, and focusing on teacher education and teachers’ professional development from within or from the outside. The lack of a common conceptual language within the field is steadily pointed to, as well as the lack of longitudinal and large-scale studies in the field. This conference in Helsinki seeks to summarise how contemporary discussions on teaching quality are recognised and made relevant for teachers and teacher candidates.
Questions to discuss:
- The role of observation manuals in teacher learning and teacher education
- Teacher observation and teacher feedback
- Videos and other representations from classrooms
- Good versus "effective" teaching
In this fourth QUINT conference, we address all of the above issues. Papers will discuss a broad variety of issues related to teaching quality, especially targeting (implications for) teacher education, teachers’ professional development and teacher researcher collaboration. Scholars within the QUINT centre have worked targeted on systematic use of videos of teaching as a pedagogy in teacher education and professional development, and we thus especially welcome papers targeting these issues.
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Programme
- 29 May: Arrival
- 30-31 May: QUINT PhD Summer Institute 2023
Keynote sessions, paper sessions dedicated to PhD Students - 1-2 June: QUINT Conference 2023
Keynote sessions, paper sessions, symposia, panel debate with the Nordic Teachers' Trade Union presidents, panel debate with teachers, students and researchers. - 2 June: Departure
Detailed programme (upcoming)
Timeline and Key Dates
January Call for papers opens1 March Call for abstracts - submission ends- 1 April Paper acceptance confirmed
- 1 April PhD Funding confirmed
- 18 April Registration deadline
- 21 April Programme PhD Summer Institute
- 25 April Programme Conference
Organising committee
- QUINT Centre Director Professor Kirsti Klette, University of Oslo
- Assistant Professor Anna Slotte, University of Helsinki
- QUINT Postdoctoral Fellow Camilla G. Magnusson, University of Oslo
- QUINT Administrative Leader Maria Dikova
Contact: contact-quint@ils.uio.no
QUINT Centre Director Professor Kirsti Klette
QUINT Communication Advisor Misha Jemsek
Financed by NordForsk, programme "Education for Tomorrow" (External link to the NordForsk website)
Project number 87663
