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Med afsæt i en case om udviklingen af en mobilapplikation til at understøtte specialestuderendes proces argumenterer artiklens forfattere for, at der eksisterer et stort og uudnyttet potentiale i forhold til at udvikle læringsunderstøttende apps til smartphones, ikke mindst når det gælder læreprocesser, der foregår uden for skemalagte undervisningsforløb på universitetsuddannelserne, såsom specialeforløbet. En gennemgang af den pædagogiske litteratur om specialeprocessen skaber grundlag for at vie begreberne personalisering og motivation særlig opmærksomhed i forhold til specialeapp-casen. Central to this article is the case of developing a mobile application to support the process of writing a Master’s thesis. The authors argue for the existence of a large and unexploited potential in respect to developing academic learning apps for smartphones, especially apps supporting learning processes that do not take place within scheduled university courses, such as the process of writing the Master’s thesis. A review of the pedagogical literature on this process serves as the basis for bestowing special attention to the concepts of customization and motivation in the case of the Master’s thesis app.
As part of a project aiming at designing a smartphone application for students writing their Master's thesis, Mobile Probes were used as a method to gain knowledge about thesis writing students' day-to-day life and their work processes. The conducted probe did generate insights into students' daily routines. However, it also proved to have a value beyond the study. Participants in the probe reported how the questions of the probe led them to reflect on their thesis writing practices and in a few cases even develop them, and we suggest that this reflective aspect of the probe should be integrated into the smartphone application.
Den undersøgelse vi her i artiklen rapporterer fra, viser at der blandt specialevejledere og specialestuderende er stor forskel på kendskabet til og interessen for de opstillede rammer ogregler for specialevejledningen. Vi konstaterer at vejlederen ikke primært opfatter sig selv som en medarbejder i en organisation hvor ledelsens eventuelle retningslinjer og rammer er relevanteog bindende, men snarere som en privatpraktiserende vejleder der udvikler sit eget tilbud til de studerende. Vejlederne har skullet udvikle deres egen praksis, men det er alligevel påfaldendeat så få problematiserer deres manglende viden om institutionens retningslinjer. Nogle af vejledernes begrundelser for ikke at interessere sig mere for fagets retningslinjer afspejler en opfattelse af de gældende retningslinjer for deres praksis som irrelevante for dem. Baggrunden er at reglerne primært er kvantitative og rammesættende og slet ikke kommer i dialog med vejledernes individuelle praksis. Hvis man vil udvikle vejledningspraksis, skal der altså andre mere kvalitative og pædagogisk velfunderede midler til.
This article provides insights into how writing a Master’s thesis in pairs affects students’ development and identity construction as academic writers (Burgess & Ivanič’s, 2010). Data consist of self-recorded dialogues between four pairs of Danish Master’s thesis writers at the start, middle and end of their thesis writing process. Data were coded thematically using grounded theory methods (Charmaz, 2006) and the resulting empirically grounded themes informed a discourse analysis of the material (Laclau & Mouffe, 2001). The findings suggest that those writing a Master’s thesis in pairs negotiate and assign largely fixed writing identities at an early stage that serve as a way of creating boundaries and building trust, allowing the students to write, provide feedback and revise text in shared documents. Each pair develops a set of writing strategies focused on setting and maintaining boundaries, thereby ensuring that the joint pair writer identity is not threatened. The article discusses how this strategy is embedded in a wider Master’s thesis discourse that draws heavily on concepts such as autonomy and independence and thus might not lend itself easily to the articulation of a joint identity as a writing pair.
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