Studio 1 - Knowledge in Transformation: Instruction, Interaction and Materiality
Studio 1 addresses issues pertaining to knowledge in transformation, particularly in relation to technological advancements in various professional domains. Empirical studies are conducted in university-based professional education as well as technology intense work settings.
Three key-concepts form the basis of the research agenda: Instruction, Interaction and Materiality.
- Instruction puts an analytical focus on the ways in which people at work and in educational settings make actions and objects intelligible to each other; for instance, how they develop shared criteria for professional judgments or achieve common understandings of a subject matter.
- Interaction specifies an interest in how instructions and instructed actions are accomplished in moment-to-moment interaction. By video-recording interaction, it becomes possible to capture and analyse detailed aspects of how people deal with problems of critical concern for professional conduct.
- Materiality refers to an interest in the ways interaction and the transformation of knowledge are bound up with artefacts, objects and other constituents of the material surroundings: for instance, with novel digital tools for diagnosing diseases or with ways of visualizing procedures in dental education. Embodied aspects of the ways participants handle these technologies are also accorded a central analytic place.
The research in Studio 1 relies on inter-disciplinary collaboration between the social sciences and other disciplines, at this point in architecture, radiology, radiation physics, endodontics, health sciences, and shipping and marine technology. The studies take a starting point in issues identified by the disciplines of specific professions, and use video recordings as a basis for analytical observations. The studies aim to produce results of relevance for the social sciences as well as the other participating disciplines. A further aim is to contribute in the development of work practice and in the design of education for the professions.
The overarching purpose of the project is to advance patient-centred care in the context of hybrid procedures. Such procedures are increasingly enabled through the construction of hybrid operating rooms. Following the implementation of such medical facilities we can witness a number of new challenges and learning opportunities. In order to continually ascertain high quality specialist care, the project aims to develop efficient and safe treatment procedures with particular emphasis on inter-professional communication and the utilization of medical imaging technologies in the hybrid operating room.
This project addresses knowledge development within teams of experts and is carried out through collaboration between participants from Department of Education, Communication and Learning at the Faculty of Education and the architectural research and design network Servo Stockholm Los Angeles. The project is organized as a longitudinal study that follows and documents Servo's innovation and research processes in order to better understand the conditions for knowledge development.
This project addresses knowledge development within teams of experts and is carried out through collaboration between participants from Department of Education, Communication and Learning at the Faculty of Education and the architectural research and design network Servo Stockholm Los Angeles. The project is organized as a longitudinal study that follows and documents Servo's innovation and research processes in order to better understand the conditions for knowledge development.
The project addresses how advancements in imaging technologies challenge existing expertise and necessitates the development of new criteria and methods of interpretation. In a study of tomosynthesis, which is a technology for chest radiology, it is demonstrated how a particular educational arrangement that involves a combination of imaging tools can be used to develop quality criteria and to enhance novices' detection skills of pulmonary nodules to the level of experienced radiologists. The results also show how such arrangements allow for the display of expert reasoning in situ and how this is bound up with disciplinary knowledge.
In endodontics, the use of surgical microscopes has not just simplified certain procedures, but also fundamentally changed the way that root canal treatments are done and understood. Moreover, by having video cameras built into the microscopes, students are now able to follow the procedures in new ways. The aim of the project is to explore how the introduction of surgical microscopes changes the premises for instruction as well as expert performance.
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Video presentation of the pedagogical developmental project (in swedish)