Competences
Main axes of research
Based on the disciplinary competencies of its members, LCMI research unit undertakes interdisciplinary research in fields of the educational sciences, social and cognitive psychology, applied and socio linguistics, history, sociology and theory of education.
The interdisciplinary approach helps to develop an understanding of education as a broad cultural practice and as a phenomenon on two levels: the social level of the educational system and the level of individual interactions in educational processes. The focus on situated processes of learning and development helps to develop efficient and inclusive pedagogic practices, concepts and tools as well as to steer knowledge for educational policy and language policy in plurilingual and multicultural contexts.
Competency development of actors in the educational domain, most notably teachers, is also addressed, namely teachers’ competencies in assessing, testing and evaluating learning outcomes.
The different research projects aim at enhancing internationally accepted scientific and applied knowledge from sociological, socio-constructivist, socio-cultural, psychological, cultural-historical, and critical perspectives.
The scientific cooperation and quality of the different research expertise within the research unit are organised in five distinguished research fields:
- Language ecology and plurilingual literacies
- Tracing learning processes
- History and theory of education and curriculum
- Research on Development, Interaction, Cognition and Activity – DICA
- Professionalization of actors in educational fields
Current research projects
Regularly updated information on LCMI current research projects:
http://wwwen.uni.lu/recherche/flshase/languages_culture_media_and_identities_lcmi/research/current_research
Resources and collaborations
Equipment
- Cognition Lab
- Learning platforms
- Processing tools for analyzing interactions, communication and language acquisition
- Multi-modal database
Products and services
- Change analysis and developmental work applications
- Conceptualisation, design, implementation and quality management of training / teaching programmes
- Consultation of school innovations and reforms
- Educational policy analysis (national and global)
- Implementation of process-driven, technology enriched platforms and databases
- Language diagnosing models and devices
- Multilingual information management and development of related skills
- Set-up, design and post-production of learning performances and multimedia enriched events on knowledge building
- Theories concerning the interrelation between economy, democracy, and education
Major partnerships and collaborations
National: Ministry of National Education and Professional Training; National Research Fund (FNR); ; Service de Coordination et de la Recherche et de l’Innovation Pédagogiques et Technologiques (SCRIPT); ATTF – Agence de Transfert de Technologie Financière; Association de Soutien aux Travailleurs Immigrés (ASTI)
International: European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC); Stanford University; University of Berne; University of Wisconsin at Madison; University of Wuppertal; University of Tübingen; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG); Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF); Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW); ATTF – Agence de Transfert de Technologie Financière; Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
Networks:
- Language Network for Quality Assurance (LanQua)
- SEMLANG – Training language professionals in multilingual Europe
- Multilingual Europe Network - Network on language learning and diversity
- Network of Multilingual Universities
- Philosophy and history of the discipline of education: Faces and spaces of educational research (KU Leuven, BE)
- Transnationalisation of Higher Education (Queen’s University, CA)
- Theory of Education (University of Scotland, UK)
- Networking the European Research Community on Language Acquisition and Language Learning (LANGSCAPE)
- Observatoire européen du plurilinguisme
- Competences for Organising Discourse in Interaction (CODI)
- Language learning and social media: 6 key dialogues
Human resources
- 36 Researchers (Prof., ass. Prof., Post-docs, PhD)
- 6 Doctoral students and students
- 0 Engineers
- 0 Technicians
- 11 Other
Business sector(s)
- Human and Social Sciences
Contact
Language, Culture, Media, Identities (LCMI)
Campus Walferdange, Route de Diekirch, L-7220 Walferdange
Luxembourg
Phone: +352 46 66 44 97 69
Email: sofia.pacheco@uni.lu
Site: http://www.lcmi.uni.lu
R&D Contact
Mrs PACHECO Sofia
Research facilitator
Phone: +352 46 66 44 97 69
Email: sofia.pacheco@uni.lu
