Helen Melander Bowden
Professor at Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningssociologi
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 16 80
- Mobile phone:
- +46 72 999 96 26
- E-mail:
- helen.melander@edu.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Von Kraemers allé 1 A
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 2136
750 02 Uppsala
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Short presentation
Senior Lecturer in Education, Associate Professor in Education
PhD in Education, MA in French and BA in Cultural Anthropology
My research centers on social interaction in different educational settings, with a particular interest in epistemics and learning.
Research
Research interests
My research interests are learning and cognition as interactional achievements in a lived social and material world. Grounded in a Conversation Analysis (CA) perspective, I am interested in how participants simultaneously use talk, embodied action, and material structure in the environment in shared meaning making. As a basis for the analyses I use video recordings of naturally occurring interaction, that is, everyday practices in which people participate. I am interested in children’s and young people’s interaction and learning in different practices, both in the home and in different institutional contexts. Another area that I have studied is flight lessons within the context of pilot training.
Publications
Selection of publications
- Problem-solving in collaborative game design practices (2019)
- Knowledge talk in performance appraisal interviews (2019)
- Situated collaboration and problem solving in young children's digital game play (2018)
- Mathematizing in preschool (2018)
- Berättelser om måltider i en mobil förskola (2018)
- Multiple perspectives on the same event (2018)
- Parsing tasks for the mobile novice (2018)
- Managing disruptive student conduct (2017)
- Unpacking corrections in mobile instruction (2017)
- Becoming a good nurse (2017)
- Practices of remembering (2017)
- Appropriation through guided participation (2016)
- Om media literacy-praktiker i barns vardagsliv (2013)
- Transformations of knowledge within a peer group (2012)
- Knowing how to play the game of jump rope (2012)
- Lärande i interaktion (2010)
- Trajectories of Learning (2009)
- In tow of the blue whale. (2009)
- Learning to Fly (2009)
Recent publications
- Barns berättelser om spel i kamratgruppen (2023)
- Designedly incomplete utterances as prompts for co-narration in home literacy events with young multilingual children (2022)
- Instructing equestrian feel: on the art of teaching embodied knowledge (2022)
- Embodied spatial learning in the mobile preschool: the sociospatial organization of meals as interactional achievement. (2022)
- Young students’ treatment of synthetic voicing as an interactional resource in digital writing (2022)
All publications
Articles
- Barns berättelser om spel i kamratgruppen (2023)
- Designedly incomplete utterances as prompts for co-narration in home literacy events with young multilingual children (2022)
- Instructing equestrian feel: on the art of teaching embodied knowledge (2022)
- Embodied spatial learning in the mobile preschool: the sociospatial organization of meals as interactional achievement. (2022)
- Young students’ treatment of synthetic voicing as an interactional resource in digital writing (2022)
- Läxhjälp as Shadow Education in Sweden (2021)
- Interactional and epistemic challenges in students' help-seeking in sessions of mathematical homework support (2021)
- Co-constructing a child as disorderly (2020)
- Designing and assessing digital games in a classroom (2020)
- Collaborative work on an online platform in the context of video-mediated homework support (2020)
- Problem-solving in collaborative game design practices (2019)
- Knowledge talk in performance appraisal interviews (2019)
- Situated collaboration and problem solving in young children's digital game play (2018)
- Mathematizing in preschool (2018)
- Parsing tasks for the mobile novice (2018)
- Managing disruptive student conduct (2017)
- Unpacking corrections in mobile instruction (2017)
- Appropriation through guided participation (2016)
- Att lära av varandra (2013)
- Transformations of knowledge within a peer group (2012)
- Knowing how to play the game of jump rope (2012)
- In tow of the blue whale. (2009)
- Learning to Fly (2009)
Books
- Lärande i interaktion (2010)
- Trajectories of Learning (2009)
- Förskoleklassen - ett tionde skolår? (2006)
- Sociala handlingar och deras innebörder: lärande och identitet (2004)
Chapters
- Pedagogik: Lära tillsammans (2020)
- Digital literacy practices in children's everyday life. (2019)
- Supplementary tutoring in Sweden and Russia (2019)
- Berättelser om måltider i en mobil förskola (2018)
- Multiple perspectives on the same event (2018)
- Becoming a good nurse (2017)
- Practices of remembering (2017)
- Laering i et samtalsanalytiskt perspektiv (2015)
- Om media literacy-praktiker i barns vardagsliv (2013)
- Process eller produkt? (2011)
- Lärande i ett samtalsanalytiskt perspektiv (2011)
- Reading as a social practice (2004)
- En kort beskrivning av fältarbetet i FISK-projektet (2003)
- "E han lessen bara för att han ska dö?" Om bokanvändning i en förskola, förskoleklass och skola (2003)
- The constitutive web - a first analysis of interaction pattterns in the Swedish preschool and preschool class (2003)
Conferences
- The Many Faces of Shadow Education (2019)
- The mobile preschool as a potential for children's active citizenship? (2016)
- Learning to Fly - Co-constructing a Flight Manouevre on the Ground and in the Air (2008)
- Content Orientation as Constitutive of Sequential Changes in Interaction (2008)
- Learning to Fly (2007)
- What Education Research Needs to Know About Interaction (2005)
- The Constitution of a Social Practice of Reading. (2005)
- Pointing as interactional resource in the constitution of a social practice of reading (2004)