This article reviews the nature'of "phenomenographic" research and its alleged conceptual underpinnings in the phenomenological tradition. In common with other attempts to apply philosophical phenomenology to the social sciences, it relies on participants' discursive accounts of their experiences and cannot validly postulate causal mental entities such as conceptions of learning. The analytic p...

.................................................................................................................. 1 LIST OF PAPERS ........................................................................................................ 3 ABBREVIATIONS ...................................................................................................... 4 INTRODUCTION ..........................

This paper describes a qualitative, explorative study of how students understand some concepts in concurrent programming. The study is based on interviews with students regarding the final programming assignment in a concurrent programming course. We use phenomenography to analyse the students’ statements about tuple spaces, the concurrent data structures on which the assignments are based, and...

This paper describes a qualitative, explorative study of how students understand some concepts in concurrent programming. The study is based on interviews with students regarding the final programming assignment in a concurrent programming course. We use phenomenography to analyse the students’ statements about tuple spaces, the concurrent data structures on which the assignments are based, and...

This paper describes the use of phenomenography to explore the different ways in which language learners experience Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). The use of computer as well as new media has dominated language learning and teaching (Gamper and Knapp, 2002) and raised new potentials and possibilities in the field. These new possibilities need to be further exploited in order for in...