Prerequisite course for this course is: EL615E English and Education: Language Teaching in Theory and Practice I

This course is part of the English and Education Master’s Programme.

Students will develop their ability to use qualitative methods to highlight teachers’ perceptions of education and language teaching in reference to policy documents and relevant research.

The course includes an in-depth study of methodological issues in qualitative research, including research ethics and source criticism. In addition, the course focuses on a detailed analysis of teachers’ perceptions of education and language teaching in relation to the potential dissonance between the practice of teaching, pupils’ various experiences and needs and the institutional conditions and frameworks of school activities.

On completing the course, students will be able to:

• design, plan, motivate and conduct a qualitative interview with a practicing teacher to investigate teacher perceptions of education and English language teaching using an appropriate and ethically sound methodological framework.
• analyse and report interview data in reference to policy documents, relevant research and organizational objectives.

The course includes various learning activities such as seminars, lectures, classroom observations, independent study, study visits and group work.

Learning outcomes 1 and 2 are assessed through an oral presentation of a written analysis.

Grading criteria for the course are announced by the course coordinator at the start of the course.

The basis for all assessments must be such that individual performance can be distinguished.

Bryman, Alan. (2016). Social Research Methods. Oxford: Oxford University Press (300 s)

Kvale, Steinar. (2007). Doing interviews. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications (157 s.)

Additional texts amounting to approximately 150 pages.

Malmö University provides students who participate in, or who have completed a course, with the opportunity to express their opinions and describe their experiences of the course by completing a course evaluation administered by the University. The University will compile and summarise the results of course evaluations. The University will also inform participants of the results and any decisions relating to measures taken in response to the course evaluations. The results will be made available to the students (HF 1:14).

If a course is no longer offered, or has undergone significant changes, the students must be offered two opportunities for re-examination based on the syllabus that applied at the time of registration, for a period of one year after the changes have been implemented.

If a student has a Learning support decision, the examiner has the right to provide the student with an adapted test, or to allow the student to take the exam in a different format. The syllabus is a translation of a Swedish source text.