Invited Keynote Speakers

 

Professor Emiritus Ference Marton, Gothenburg University "Differences in seeing as a function of seeing differences." Assuming that he has found “the secret of learning”, together with all the students and colleagues he has been lucky enough to work with during almost half a century, he intends to reveal it to the audience in Kristianstad.
Associate Professor Ulla Runesson, Gothenburg University "The stepwise unlocking of meaning: the role of variation for teachers' and students' learning." Ulla Runesson is associate professor at University of Gothenburg and University of Skövde. Her research interest is learning and teaching mathematics and the teaching profession in general. Ulla Runesson has been involved in international research projects studying and comparing features of mathematics classrooms in different countries. Several of her publications are based on data collected in Sweden, Hong Kong, but also in Australia. She is engaged in the development of variation theory and in its practical applications Learning study.
Ph.D Ming Fai Pang, Hong Kong University "Using Variation Theory to Boost Students' Financial Literacy"
Professor Shirley Booth, Lund university ”Phenomenography and Transformation: Strange bedfellows?” Having spent most of the past two years living and working in South Africa, Shirley will reflect on the role of phenomenography in researching learning and teaching practices in the country, the issues that are faced and the work that is emerging. Shirley is a professor at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Professor Lennart Svensson, Lund University: "Individual uses of language expressions in approaching subject matter." Lennart Svensson's main research field from the end of the 60ties was students studying and learning in higher education. This research was part of the foundation of the phenomenographic research orientation developed at the Department of Education, University of Göteborg. The research was extended to studies of adult thinking and learning outside formal education. Development of research methods was early an extensive part of the research work, initially concerning psychometric and statistical methods and since the early 70ties mainly concerning qualitative methods. (more)

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