Rearticulating Reinterpretation
Jana Peters (Leibniz University Hannover), Johanna Ruge (University of Hamburg & Leibniz University Hannover) & Morten Nissen (Aarhus University)

In our talk, we are going to address reinterpretation from two perspectives.

First, Jana and Hanna will reflect about the process of reinterpretation in an interdisciplinary setting (mathematics education research). They will share challenges and pitfalls that they were confronted with during the process of reinterpreting scientific results together and reflect on their joint learning process in developing an interdisciplinary (self-)understanding. They wish to highlight the potentials of joint reinterpretation for research in interdisciplinary settings.

Second, Morten will outline the methodology of his present work on sciences and practices of motivation, sketching some roots to the concept of ‘rearticulation’ in German-Scandinavian Critical Psychology (reinterpretation) as well as in wider strands of Hegelian Marxism (immanent critique) and in more recent poststructuralism (deconstruction) and science & technology studies. This is meant to offer a way of understanding what motivation sciences and practices do to us and what we can do with them. The concept of ‘boundary objectivity’ is proposed as key.

Third, we open to a discussion, which may touch upon issues such as transdisciplinarity, standardization, mathematics, and selfhood.

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Morten Nissen,
Morten Nissen is professor at the School of Education, Aarhus University. Co-chair of the research program Rearticulating the Formation of Motivation. He mostly does science studies in educational psychology – on the various kinds of knowledge and representations produced, distributed and used in education and social work. On the executive committee of ISTP, he is associate editor of the International Review of Theoretical Psychology.

Johanna Ruge,
Johanna Ruge has studied psychology at the Freie Universität Berlin. She currently works as research assistant at the University of Hamburg. Her research is situated in the fields of mathematics education and higher education didactics.