Call for Papers - Ars Educandi 2019

Call for Papers: Unequals at work: researchers by trade and by chance together in multi-author publications

In the next issue of Ars Educandi, we want to draw attention to the subject of research cooperation between those who study and those whose work consists in conducting research. We assume that, at least in Poland, current university reforms of university do not support such cooperation. Meanwhile, the cooperation of scientists with the most abundant „resource” at universities, i.e., with students, seems to be a salvation for employees who do not even have time to conduct their research (Kowzan, Zielin´ska, Kleina-Gwizdała, Prusinowska, 2016), whereas their „competitors” constantly accelerate their work (Vostal, 2016). For students, in turn, cooperation is an opportunity for an individualized care in the system of mass education and for more or less experimental forms of cooperation with more experienced researchers. At the University of Gdańsk, this can be experienced as part of the tutoring in the Oxford or Finnish version (Karpińska-Musiał, 2016; Korczyńska-Partyka, Wielewska-Baka, 2016). Thanks to such forms of work, students gain a better use of their potential and have people around them who either try to hire them later or at least help in finding a satisfying job.

Knowledge production can nowadays become an act of resistance to the consumerism, which pressure students to limit their studying to just using educational services. Such resistance is an institutional effort, as in the project "Student as Producer" (Neary, 2006; Taylor & Wilding, 2009). It is also possible without explicit criticism of capitalism when prepare students for the requirements of "life practice", as it is organized in Finnish hatcheries, among others research hatcheries (Witkowska, Jagiełło-Rusiłowski, 2015). Apart from the institutional support of unequals in cooperation, there is also the issue of the aging of employees in relation to the successive years of students and the impact of cooperation experiences on readiness for further failures and occasional successes (Kowzan, 2017). Meetings of unequals in the lecture hall seem too retro for the networked world, but they retain the potential to become an Event that can change everything we thought about the subject being lectured and about cooperation itself (Szwabowski & Wężniejewska, 2017). At a time when futurologists are considering the organization of human cooperation with machines equipped with artificial intelligence, it may be worth considering the scale and quality of cooperation between people who may soon prove redundant (Chelliah, 2017).

The process of creating and signing multi-author articles has its own rules (see e.g. COPE guidelines, Committee on Publication Ethics), even if locally rejected (Kowzan, Krzymiński, 2018, Malewski, 2018), and journals of various disciplines publish tips for authors (Frassl et al., 2018).

In the coming issue of Ars Educandi, we are interested in examples of joint research with particular emphasis on the description of the beginning of cooperation between people, who have different status and degree of subordination to the institution. It is important for us to see what is possible between students, with particular emphasis on PhD students, graduates who are ABD (All but dissertation) and those who are employed to conduct research. Perhaps there are some practical arrangements and hints settled in your institution and it is worth sharing them. However, we are also interested in unsuccessful or forgotten attempts to democratise research work, to distribute research efforts, to hack research tools or to cross boundaries of scientific disciplines and national borders.

Research work is conditioned by financial and legal issues. The quality of our international, intergenerational and interpersonal relations is conditioned by the observance of ethics, building the common meaning of obligations and the interpenetration of the relationship of subordination, reciprocity and friendship or love. We learn to cooperate, but especially in the Polish context, we may be learning badly. And that is why we are also open to reports of pathologies or, simply, doubts that prevent us from taking the first or second step towards drawing others into joint research.

List of topics, questions and inspirations that we would like to focus on, but not limit to:
• How to conduct BA, MA and PhD seminars to create multi-author publications?
• Relations with masters: feudal, communist or reciprocal?
• Attempts to repeat the cooperation scheme and borrowing models from other disciplines
• To what extent it is possible to prepare texts for publication as part of regular classes
• Assistance in conducting research and collecting research data in order to pass the course
• From writing obligatory papers to writing for publication - stories and herstories of students’ work
• Work in intergenerational dialogue in a highly technical environment
• Alternative methods and products of scientific communication
• Readership of bachelor, master and PhD theses - their co-authorship and alternatives
• Gamification of the production process - reenchanting of the world of academic labour
• Citizen science and the involvement of students from various faculties
• Research work in student scientific circles and in the student movement under the Bologna Process
• Conditions under which all students in the group join research and co-authorship of the final publication

Guest editor: Dr Piotr Kowzan, University of Gdansk, PL

Full text submission deadline: 15th November 2019

 

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