"Collect, Understand and Publish" A Workshop on Qualitative Research in STEM Education

This invited workshop aims to encourage the participants to do qualitative (or, with another term, non-positivistic) research in STEM Education. The workshop discusses different types of research, how they differ in nature and how various ways of doing research can give results of different natures. Particularly, the workshop will discuss qualitative research, which often is based on data in the form of words, for example collected through interviews or from the participants own stories. The different stages of a qualitative research project (to collect data, to analyze it (or understand it), and to publish) will be discussed. During most of the workshop, the participants will work practically with data. After the workshop the participants will be capable of seeing the relevance of qualitative research projects and initialize their own projects. Some preparations are recommended before the workshop.