Workshop facilitator Michael Bamberg will redress the role of 鈥榬eflection鈥 for teaching and learning in Higher Education. More specifically, he will guide workshop participants through a number of reflective practices that are said to serve deep and life-long learning, drawing on a number of pedagogic experiments - such as working with portfolios, peer-learning assistants, and attempts to empower student learning through self-grading.
Michael is currently at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan as Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Michael was a student of sociolinguist/anthropologist Robert B. LePage (York), John Gumperz (Berkeley), and Shirley Brice Heath (Stanford), and completed his PhD in Psychology (鈥Narrative Development鈥) under the mentorship of Elinor Rosch, Susan Ervin-Tripp, and Dan Slobin (all Berkeley). His interest in Qualitative Inquiry originated with his Assistant Professorship in the Sociology Department (1981-85) under the leadership of Martin Kohli (FU Berlin), and from there developed into a lifelong passion, bridging into the scholarship for which he became known. Since 1986, he teaches Psychology at Clark University (Adjunct: English), where he developed 鈥楺ualitative Inquiry,鈥 a required course for undergraduate majors in Psychology. This course is featured in YouTube lectures leading to his recruitment for the APA Publications and Communications Task Force on Qualitative Research for the new edition of the听APA Publication Manual听(2019), which, for the first time, includes guidelines for the reporting of qualitative methods in psychology and epistemological perspectives on research reporting.
Michael has been an important figure in the promotion of a series of different genres of applied linguistic, narrative and identity research. From his dissertation work on the acquisition of narratives (1987), through听positioning theory听(1997a, 2003) and analysis of narratives (2011b, 2012), to identity construction in talk-in-interaction (2011b, 2011c; Bamberg, De Fina & Schiffrin, 2011; Bamberg & Georgakopoulou, 2008), he has contributed varied strands to psychology, applied linguistics and identity theory (2011; De Fina, Schiffrin & Bamberg, 2006; Bamberg, De Fina, & Schiffrin, 2007, 2011). He is the founding editor of the journal听Narrative Inquiry听through which he supported and encouraged theorizing and research into narrative from differing perspectives for over 20 years. In addition, he also served as the series editor of听Studies in Narrative听consisting for a series of books at the cutting edge of narrative research. Currently, he is under contract with Cambridge University Press (with C. Demuth, Aalborg, and M. Watzlawick, Berlin), tasked with the edition of the听Cambridge Handbook of Identity听(CUP, 2020). After serving his home institution recently as听Associate Dean of the College听&听Director of the Center for Enhancement of Teaching & Learning, he is preparing for his Fulbright Fellowship as听Distinguished Chair in Humanities and Social Sciences听at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan 鈥 followed by his (well-deserved) sabbatical in 2020 鈥 for which he is open to explore the world.
Source:听https://wordpress.clarku.edu/mbamberg/