In the afternoon of June 22nd, Feng Lingqin, a researcher from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto in Canada, was invited by our institute to make an academic report entitled Narrative Inquiry into Cross-Cultural Education -Research in a Toronto Elementary Class. The report was held in the conference room on the fourth floor of our institute as well as was chaired byLiu Qinghua, the head of the Education Department of our institute, with several postgraduate and undergraduate students to attend the report.
In her report, Feng Lingqin focused on the theme of "qualitative research", and expound her views from the perspectives of "how to observe", "pay attention to the time of observation", "pay attention to the arts of teaching", "pay attention to the sociality of educational events", "grasp the time and space dimension" and so on. She pointed out that grounded theory needs time, knowledge, data accumulation and personnel cooperation, so as to achieve the goal of rising abruptly based on its accumulated strength. In the case analysis of the narrative research of education, she emphasized that qualitative research should grasp the theme of grounded theory and words to speak, quantitative research and digital speech, learning something from dialogue, as well as attaching importance to inquiry and guidance.
Finally, she gave detailed answers to students’ queries. Meanwhile she provide the direction to graduate students' grounded theory and Nvivo software usage, and then brought the report to a climax.
This report will promote the research of education and teaching in our institute, and will help our discipline construction.
