Project Details
Projekt
Successful implementation of writing centers: An explorative study based on expert interviews and participant observations in successful writing centers the USA with the objective of transfer to European higher education. A contribution to writing center research.
Applicant
Dr. Katrin Girgensohn
Subject Area
General and Domain-Specific Teaching and Learning
Term
from 2011 to 2012
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 200547059
This research project contributes to a European writing center research. It generates expert knowledge about implementing writing centers in higher education. Based on expert interviews with experienced writing center directors in the USA, knowledge about successful writing center work will be generated. All experts have been working in the field of writing centers for many years and also contributed substantial to writing center research. Participant observations will supplement the expert interviews and help to understand the American university context and to reflect what is transferable across cultures. University writing centers support learning and teaching arrangements that should play a significant role in the restructuring of higher education across Europe (Bologna discourse): Writing centers provide individualised and flexible learning, they foster key competencies for critical thinking and lifelong learning and they prepare students for their future in a globalized and digitalized world. Nevertheless, establishing writing centers in Europe remains difficult. This might be caused by the lack of writing center research as a discipline in Europe. Therefore, this research project should make a contribution to writing center research from a European perspective.
DFG Programme
Research Fellowships
International Connection
USA
