Prof. Dr. Ingrid De Saint-Georges
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| Faculty or Centre | Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences | ||||||
| Department | Department of Humanities | ||||||
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Université du Luxembourg Maison des Sciences Humaines 11, Porte des Sciences L-4366 Esch-sur-Alzette |
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I am an Associate-Professor in education at the University of Luxembourg, working at the Institute for Research on Multilingualism. I am a sociolinguist by training, but I engage in transdisciplinary research (drawing from anthropology, sociology, sociocultural psychology, social semiotics or the history of sciences). Within this transdisciplinary framework, I inquire into questions related to work, learning, language and education. I find that writing, research and teaching offer me an interesting lens to explore and understand various aspects of social life and social relations. Methodologically, I am especially interested in using nexus analysis, ethnography, and multimodal discourse analytical tools to work out stakes in the important debates of our times. These include for example:
- Epistemology and methodology: What are the conditions for an inter/transdisciplinary dialogue? How do we work across values and methods in order to make research with a societal impact?
- Multilingualism and migration: What does it mean to teach, learn, work or live in conditions of heightened diversity and mobility? What are conditions for more just and convivial interactions in higher education, primary school or vocational education?
- Work: What are changing discourses in/around/about work and training? What are new meanings of work in the current context of technological development? What are relations between language, vocational education and (un)employment?
Last updated on: Wednesday, 15 January 2020
- Gath, Katharina: Communication in home health care (external). Starting date: 01.04.2015
- Weyer, Dany: Collaborative art in the multilingual and multicultural classroom: appraising the role of theatre for developing multilingual skills and global competencies. Starting date: 14.01.2016
Recently defended doctoral theses:
- Serwe, Stefan: Exploiting linguistic resources for self-employment: Workplace practices and language use of Thai immigrant entrepreneurs in the German periphery. Began September 2010 - defended 2 September 2015. University of Luxembourg & University of Geneva.
- Makboon, B.: Spiritual vegetarianism: Identity in everyday life of Thai non-traditional religious cult members. Began 2011 – Defended: 4 May 2015. AUT University, Auckland and University of Luxembourg.
Last updated on: 10 Jan 2020
I teach at the Bachelor, Master and PhD level in the following programmes:
- Doctoral School in Educational Sciences
- Master in Learning and Communication in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts
- Master in Management and Coaching
- Bachelor in Education
Last updated on: 10 Jan 2020
Research Interests: keywords
- Multilingualism: Mutilingual education, Multilingual pedagogy, Internationalization in Higher education, Mobility, Tourism
- Learning: Vocational education, Sociocultural processes of learning, Workplace learning, Objects and mediations in learning processes, Tutoring and mentoring (in multilingual contexts)
- Research approaches: Mediated discourse analysis, Nexus analysis, Relational Ethnography, Auto-ethnography, Social semiotics, (French) Activity theory, Discourse Analysis, Visual semiotics, Geosemiotics/Linguistic Landscaping
- Work: Language and work, Professional development, Intervention, Multilingualism in the workplace, Teacher training, Organizational discourse and organizational change, Entrepreneurship, Unemployment, Social economy
- Media: Media genres, Multilingualism in the media
- Discourse: Anticipatory discourse, Future-oriented texts and talk
- Other: Interdisciplinarity, Writing processes
Research projects (3rd party-funded)
- 2013 Multilingualism and Mobility in Europe: Policies and Practices, Funding: RESCOM – FNR/13/EW/02, Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg, PI: K. Horner, J.J. Weber, my role: co-investigator
- 2009–2011 Trajectoires situées d’apprentissage en formation professionnelle initiale : une approche interactionnelle et multimodale (Situated trajectories of learning in initial vocational education: a multimodal and interactional approach), Funding: PP00P1-124650, Swiss National Science Foundation, PI: L. Filliettaz, my role: co-investigator, with B. Duc
- 2005–2009 La mise en circulation des savoirs dans des dispositifs de formation professionnelle initiale. Une analyse des interactions verbales et non verbales (Circulation of knowledge in initial vocational education: An analysis of verbal and non-verbal interactions), Funding: PP001-106603, FNS, Swiss National Science Foundation, PI: L. Filliettaz, my role: co-investigator, with B. Duc
- 2005 Franco-Swiss research programs investigating the role of objects and mediations in situations of training, Funding: FNS 10C013-119209, PI: L. Fillliettaz, my role: main investigator
- 2004 Danser et après... ? Recherche et conception d’aide aux danseurs professionnels en fin de carrière (Dancing. And after ... ? Research and design of a training curriculum for professional dancers reaching the end of their dancing career), Funding: Federal Office of Culture, Bern, PI: M. Durand, my role: co-investigator with E. Laurent, A. Schenk
- 2003-2004 Participation in the development of EVOQ©, a software for textual analysis of individual and collective representation in large written corpora. Funding: Fundation Francqui, PI: Jean-Marie Jacques, Anne Wallemacq. My role: co-investigator, with M. Latiers
Last updated on: 10 Jan 2020
Academic career
I started my studies with a BA degree in romance philology and got interested in Latin-American Literature. I also received a Teaching Accreditation for secondary school from the University of Louvain (Belgium).
In 1993, I did a semester abroad at University College Cork (Ireland), studying French literature and linguistics.
In 1997 I obtained a MSc. in Computational Linguistics and a Certificate in Translation from Georgetown University (USA, Washington DC) where I also later obtained my PhD in Sociolinguistics (2003) under the supervision of Ron Scollon who has been highly influential in my work.
In 2003-2004, I was the recipient of a Francqui Foundation post-doctoral fellowship and worked at the Research Center for Crisis and Conflict Management at the Faculty of Economics, Social Sciences and Management of the University of Namur(Belgium).
From 2004 to 2010, I held the research position of ‘Maître-Assistant’ at the Faculty of Psychology and Education of the University of Geneva, in the sector on adult education and learning, working on a FNR-funded project on interactions in vocational education and training (http://www.unige.ch/fapse/interaction-formation/). I also taught a course on Multimodality at the University of Neuchâtel.
In 2010, I joined the Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education at the University of Luxembourg, where I added research on multilingualism, mobility and multilingual education to my previous interests
Invited professorships
I have been invited as a guest professor at the University of Thammassat (Bangkok, Thailand) in July 2014 and the University of Strasbourg (France) in October 2015, to talk about Mediated Discourse Analysis, Ethnography, Diversity, Critical Pedagogy and Multilingualism in Luxembourg (in Higher Education and in primary schools).
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Last updated on: 10 Jan 2020
2021
Top of Page2020
“We need to become ‘educational chameleons’”: from unified to multiple norms in a multilingual and international higher education context; ;
in European Journal of Applied Linguistics (2020), 8(2),
Multilingualism as a resource for learning–insights from a multidisciplinary research project;
in European Journal of Applied Linguistics (2020), 8(2), 143-156
Capitalizing on linguistic diversity in education; ;
in European Journal of Applied Linguistics (2020), 8(2), 143-353
2019
Top of Page2018
Recognizing transversal competencies in situations of professional development: challenges and stakesScientific Conference (2018, September 13)
Keynote. The Politics of Emotions in Higher Education: tensions, dilemmas and possibilities.Scientific Conference (2018, May 01)
Generalizing from Case Studies: A Commentaryin Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science (2018)
Construire un projet européen ERASMUS+ au service de la formation des adultes. Témoignage: le projet RECTEC; ;
Scientific Conference (2018, October 25)
2017
Superdiversity and Language;
in Canagarajah, Suresh (Ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Language (2017)
Doing interdisciplinary research with an impact: the power of case studiesPresentation (2017, December 05)
Pluriversalizing (Higher) Education: meanings, contexts and possibilitiesScientific Conference (2017, October 20)
La formation professionnelle entre école et travail: exploration d'un espace liminairePresentation (2017, March 09)
Researching Media, Multilingualism and Educationin King, Kendall; Lai, Yi-Ju (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Language and Education (3rd Edition) - Research Methods Volume) (2017)
Plurilinguisme et multimodalité : les dilemmes de l’enseignant débutant en contexte linguistiquement hétérogène; ;
in Forumlecture suisse. Littératie dans la recherche et la pratique (2017), 2017(1), 1-22
2016
Navigating Multilingual workplaces: a view from across contexts and institutionsPresentation (2016, March 01)
Breaking through borders: routes, resources, modes and infrastructures of (im)mobility in Higher EducationScientific Conference (2016, October 05)
Linguistic Landscape/s: quels ancrages disciplinaires dans les univers de recherche anglophone et francophone?;
Scientific Conference (2016, January 18)
2015
Au carrefour des disciplines, au détour des terrains: dialogues, échanges et nouvelles convivialités épistémologiquesPresentation (2015, December 04)
Langage, travail, formation : nouveaux espaces de pratiques et de réflexionsPresentation (2015, November 30)
Pratiques et défis du multilinguisme dans différents contextes éducatifs luxembourgeoisPresentation (2015, October 07)
Multilingualism in Higher Education: Research in the European ContextConference given outside the academic context (2015)
'Please Do not Stand over the Buddha’s Head (Pay Respect)’: Mediations of Tourist and Researcher Experience in Thailand.; ; ;
Scientific Conference (2015, July)
'Please Do not Stand over the Buddha’s Head (Pay Respect)’: Mediations of Tourist and Researcher Experience in Thailand; ; ;
in Lingue Culture Mediazioni = Languages Cultures Mediation (2015), 2(1), 115-134
2014
Invited contributor to the roundtable - Multilingualism in secondary educationPresentation (2014, October 09)
Preparing teachers for the multilingual classroom: lessons from teacher practicum in LuxembourgScientific Conference (2014, September)
Mediated Discourse Analysis, 'embodied learning' and emerging social and professional identitiesin Norris, Sigrid; Maier, Carmen Daniela (Eds.) Interactions, Images and Texts: A Reader in Multimodality (2014)
Pratiques langagières et mondes du travail : d’une linguistique appliquée à une linguistique de l’intervention ?in Dispagne, Michel (Ed.) Espaces sociaux, pratiques langagières et mise(s) en scène du travail (2014)
Mediated Action and Mediated Discourse Analysis: Studying learning and becoming at the Nexus of Practice;
Scientific Conference (2014, June 23)
Multilingualism and Mobility in Europe: Policies and Practices; ;
Book published by Peter Lang (2014)
Lernen und Lehren in multilingualen Kontexten. Zum Umgang mit sprachlich-kultureller Vielfalt im Klassenraum; ; ;
Book published by Peter Lang (2014)
“Ohne Glutamat/Without MSG”: Shelf label design in a Thai supermarket;
in Horner, Kristine; de Saint-Georges, Ingrid; Weber, Jean-Jacques (Eds.) Multilingualism and Mobility in Europe: Policies and Practices (2014)
2013
Learning to work : Insights from Ethnography and Multimodal Discourse Analysis for Vocational Education ResearchScientific Conference (2013, November 24)
Multilingualism, multimodality and the future of education researchin Multilingualism and Multimodality : Current Challenges for Educational Studies (2013)
Multilingualism and Multimodality: Current Challenges for Educational Studies;
Book published by Sense Publishers (2013)
Preface;
in de Saint-Georges, Ingrid; Weber, Jean-Jacques (Eds.) Multilingualism and Multimodality : Current Challenges for Educational Studies (2013)
2012
Restitutions, échanges, transformations : l’analyste du discours face au "retour au terrain"Scientific Conference (2012, February 03)
Context in the Analysis of Discourse and Interactionin Chapelle, Carole (Ed.) The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (2012)
Analyse des pratiques langagières et retombées pratiques pour le terrain: se situer et construire un projet "impliqué" ou "engagé"in Pugnière-Saavedra; Sitri, F.; Veniard, M. (Eds.) L'analyse du discourse dans la société: engagement du chercheur et demande sociale. (2012)
Studying and teaching in a multilingual university : Policies, practices, learning outcomes;
Presentation (2012, December 17)
2011
L’analyste du discours et son « terrain de recherche » : écueils et enjeux de la « restitution » (invited contribution)Presentation (2011, September)
Compte rendu Critical Discourse Analysis I: les notions de contexte et d'acteurs sociaux. A.Petitclerc et P. Schepens (eds.)in Bulletin Suisse de linguistique appliquée (2011), 93(été), 141-147
Ron Scollon (1939-2009): An academic in the wild; ; ; ; ; ;
in Discourse and Society (2011), 22(2), 209-216
Mediated Discourse Analysis;
in Gee, James Paul; Handford, Michael (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis (2011)
Sprachkompetenzen in Ausbilding und Beruf - Überänge und Transformationen/Les compétences langagières dans la formation et dans la vie professionnelle - Transitions et transformations (Special issue, volume 1 et 2); ; ; ;
in Bulletin Suisse de linguistique appliquée (2011), 93(été), 1-133
Sprachkompetenzen in Ausbildung und Beruf - Übergänge und Transformationen/Les compétences langagières dans la formation et dans la vie professionnelle - Transitions et transformations; ; ; ;
in Bulletin Suisse de linguistique appliquée (2011), 2(Winter), 1-202
2010
Agir avec des objets: penser la part des objets et de l’environnement matériel dans les situations de formation;
in Adé, David; de Saint-Georges, Ingrid (Eds.) Les objets dans la formation: Usages, rôles et significations (2010)
« Guidance » and « orientation » in educational settings : Using the study of anticipatory discourse as a tool for prospective critiqueScientific Conference (2010, November)
Interagir pour travailler ensemble : la compétence d’interaction en formation professionnelle initialeScientific Conference (2010, February)
Les objets dans la formation Usages, rôles et significations;
Book published by Octares Editions (2010)
Reformulation, resémiotisation et trajectoires d‘apprentissage en formation professionnelle initiale: l‘enseignement du giclage du mortier en maçonnerie; ;
in Rabatel, Alain (Ed.) Les reformulations pluri-sémiotiques en contexte de formation (2010)
Skiing, cheese fondue and Swiss watches: analogical discourse in vocational training interactions; ;
in Vocations and Learning (2010), 3(2), 117-140
2009
L’accompagnement en formation professionnelle : quels défis ?Conference given outside the academic context (2009)
Social identification, learning and processes of marginalization : a case study in the field of vocational education and trainingScientific Conference (2009, March)
A qualitative approach to vocational training and education : what can we learn about « consequential transitions » from ethnography ?Scientific Conference (2009, March)
Book review. Debating Diversity: Analysing the discourse of tolerance. J. Blommaert and J. Verschueren (1998).in Discourse Studies (2009), 2(1), 121-122
« She will never be a mason » : Interacting about gender and negotiating a woman's place in adult training and education.in Ostrouch, Joanna; Ollagnier, Edmée (Eds.) Researching gender in Adult Learning (2009)
Trajectoires situées d’apprentissage et transformations de l’expérience en formation professionnelle initiale;
Scientific Conference (2009)
Développer l'autonomie dans un dispositif de formation professionnelle initiale : les ressources des situations de travail.;
in Bulletin Suisse de linguistique appliquée (2009), 90
Francophone research on language and work;
in Bargiela-Chiappini, Francesca (Ed.) The Handbook of Business Discourse (2009)
Interactions et dynamiques de participation en formation professionnelle initiale.; ;
in Durand, Marc; Filliettaz, Laurent (Eds.) Travail et formation des adultes (2009)
2008
« La formation professionnelle initiale en crise ? L’analyse du discours face à une demande socialeScientific Conference (2008, November)
Polycontextual learning : weaving interconnections between forms of knowing, doing and being over timeScientific Conference (2008, September)
"But I don’t have the time !" : time, learning and agency in the workplaceScientific Conference (2008, May)
Learning under time pressure : the synchronizing of learning to various ZeitgebernScientific Conference (2008, April)
Les trajectoires situées d'apprentissagein Filliettaz, Laurent; de Saint, Ingrid; Duc, Barbara (Eds.) « Vos mains sont intelligentes ! » : interactions en formation professionnelle initiale, 117 (2008)
La multimodalité et ses ressources pour l'enseignement - apprentissagein Filliettaz, Laurent; de Saint-Georges, Ingrid; Duc, Barbara (Eds.) « Vos mains sont intelligentes ! » : interactions en formation professionnelle initiale, 117 (2008)
Book review Future Matters: action, knowledge, ethics. B. Adam and C. Grovesin Time & Society (2008), 17(2-3), 389-391
Situated trajectories of learning in vocational training interactions.;
in European Journal of Psychology of Education (2008), XXIII(2), 213-233
« Mais vous tapez comme un pharmacien ! » : analogies en formation professionnelle initiale.; ;
in Filliettaz, Laurent; Schubauer-Leoni, Maria-Luisa (Eds.) Processus interactionnels et situations éducatives (2008)
« Vos mains sont intelligentes ! » : Interactions en formation professionnelle initiale.; ;
Book published by Université de Genève, Cahiers de la Section des Sciences de l’Education, 117. (2008)
2007
Gestes, pratiques, corporéité et polyfocalisation de l’action dans le travail de techniciennes de surface.E-print/Working paper (2007)
Order, duration and rhythm : tuning to complex temporal arrangements in workplace learning;
in Morello, Gabriele (Ed.) Proceedings of the 5th Palermo International Conference on Social Time. Retroscapes and Futurescapes. Temporal tensions in organizations (2007)
2006
Traduction de Yrjö Engeström. L’inter-agentivité orientée-objets : vers une compréhension de l’intentionnalité collective dans les champs d’activités distribuées.in Barbier, Jean-Marie; Durand, Marc (Eds.) Les rapports sujets-activités-environnements (2006)
Le curriculum en formation des adultes : argumentation pour une approche « orientée-activité ».; ;
in Crahay, Marcel; Audigier, François; Dolz, Joaquim (Eds.) Curriculum, enseignement et pilotage (2006)
L'inter-agentivité orientée-objets: vers une copréhension de l'intentionnalité collective dans les champs d'activités distribuées.;
in Barbier, Jean-Marie; Durand, Marc (Eds.) Les rapports sujets-activités-environnements (2006)
La mise en discours du temps en situation de formation professionnelle initiale : le cas du trempage de l'acier.;
in Bulletin Suisse de linguistique appliquée (2006), 84
Ski, cheese fondue and Swiss watches : the rhetoric of analogical discourse in vocational training interactions.; ;
Scientific Conference (2006)
Recherche, Intervention, Formation, Travail : mise en tension.; ; ;
in Durand, Marc; Filliettaz, Laurent (Eds.) Recherche, intervention, formation, travail : débats et perspectives dans le champ de la formation des adultes, 110 (2006)
2005
From anticipation to performance : Sites of engagement as processin Norris, Sigrid; Jones, Rodney H. (Eds.) Discourse in action: introduction to mediated discourse analysis (2005)
Discours, anticipation et action : les constructions discursives de l'avenir dans une entreprise de formation par le travailin Filliettaz, Laurent; Bronckart, Jean-Paul (Eds.) L’analyse des actions et des discours en situation de travail (2005)
2004
Actions, médiations et interactions en situation de travail : une approche multimodale des activités sur un chantierScientific Conference (2004, May)
Actions, médiations et interactions : une approche multimodale du travail sur un chantier.in Cahiers de linguistique Française (2004), 26
Materiality in discourse : the influence of space and layout in making meaningin LeVine, Philip; Scollon, Ron (Eds.) Discourse and technology: Multimodal discourse analysis (2004)
2003
2000
Nationality and the European Union : competing identities in the visual design of four European cities.;
in Visual Sociology (2000), (15), 65-78
1998
« Click here if you want to know who I am » : Deixis in personal homepagesin Prague, Ralph (Ed.) Proceedings of the 30th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Science (1998)
1997
Deixis in internet personal homepages: investigation of a digital genre (Master thesis)Bachelor/master dissertation (1997)
1995
Déchiffrer Borges : le thème des mathématiques dans les contes, essais et poèmesBachelor/master dissertation (1995)
