The Women's Studies Center WSC at Faculty of Education at the Islamic University, IUG, held the fourth lecture from the series of qualitative research methodologies lectures (qualitative research); titled " Document analysis ". The lecture organized in collaboration with university of Graz, UniGraz, students within the framework of the She-GE project. The lecturer provided by PD Dr. Axel Philipp , Leibnitz University Hannover. The lectures attended by senior staff members including Prof. Elyan AL Holy, Vice President for academic Affairs, Prof. Ibrahim AL Astal, Dean of faculty of Education, Dr. Anwar Abadsa, deputy dean, in addition to the She-Ge staff namely, Prof. Sanaa Aboudagga, the project manager, Ms. Amani Al Mqadma- project assistant manager and Ms. Reem Al Afifi - project coordinator, the WSC director, Dr. Somya Sayma in addition to academic staff members from different faculties and Ministry of Women affairs.
Where Dr. Axel I indicated in his lecture, the aim of the Documentary Method of Interpretation (DMI) is to reconstruct applied implicit knowledge in practices, he added that the Implicit knowledge is knowledge people use but which they often are not aware of. This knowledge is usually incorporated through practices in everyday contexts. furthermore, Documentary researchers “do not assume that they know more than the actors, but that the latter themselves do not know what they really know, having an implicit knowledge that is not easily accessible to them by reflection”.
The lecture organized as a full day events starting from 10: 00 am till 3: 00 pm Gaza time. The first two hours were devoted to lecturing, whereas the remaining were devoted to questions and group discussions from the UniGraz students as well as participants at IUG.