Pre- or post-doctoral research position in "Learning Science", Luxembourg

The University of Luxembourg is looking within its Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education for Scientific Collaborator(s) in the field of the Learning Sciences, specializing in discourse/interactional linguistics and/or science education/learning and/or multi-media/IT and learning with a strong focus on the multilingual/multi-modal dimensions of knowledge construction.

The project "Competences for organising discourse-in-interaction & science learning" (CODI-SCILE-A) specifically focuses on scientific knowledge construction by children (age 4 - 8) as discourse-in-interaction practices, features and formats with regard to the multi-modal, multi-medial and multi-lingual quality of resources deployed and taken up by the learners. The successful candidate(s) will join the project CODI-SCILE-A which runs from November 2008 to October 2011.

Applications must be received by October 1st, 2008. For further information, see http://wwwen.uni.lu/offres_d_emploi/ or http://lcmi.uni.lu/, or contact Prof. Dr. Charles Max at charles.max at uni.lu or Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler at gudrun.ziegler at uni.lu.