Session Information
23 SES 10B, Unpacking the Backstage of a European Educational Research Project: Profknow – Professional Knowledge in Education and Health
Symposium
Time:
2008-09-12
14:45-16:15
Room:
B1 114
Chair:
Ingolfur Asgeir Johannesson
Discussant:
Michael F D Young
Contribution
This paper addresses discourses of professionalism in teaching and nursing during a period of ongoing restructuring in education and health care with implications for professional work. In this sense, restructuring is transnational rather than national, and is often seen as something natural and difficult to resist. Discourses of professionalism can therefore also be discussed in terms of “travelling ideas” (Czarniawska & Joerges, 1996) and where intergovernmental and non-governmental associations provide models for proper national action (Meyer & Ramirez, 2000). However, these travelling ideas are materialised in different ways, to objects or actions, and “translated” when in use (Latour, 1999). The aim of this paper is to discuss how these discourses are working from the point of view of teachers and nurses, and implications for professional expertise. In particular we focus on the Swedish cases but in comparison with six other European countries. We will argue that restructuring measures create tensions at the same time as these measures are stabilized when introduced in practise with its strong cultural resources. The situation is also paradoxical in that the institutions are becoming more autonomous on one hand and more objects of evaluations and control on the other.
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