Session Information
23 SES 08 B, The Teaching Occupation in Learning Societies: Concepts for a Global Ethnography of Occupational Boundary Work
Symposium
Time:
2009-09-30
08:30-10:00
Room:
HG, HS 7
Chair:
Terri Seddon
Discussant:
Ken Jones
Contribution
The meaning and the relevance of teaching as the core activity of the teaching occupation is shifting with life long learning reforms. Researching these transnational and occupational transformations is rooted in national and local cases, where these reforms take on different features, are put into practice with different speed and meet differing cultural contexts. Teaching/teaching occupations do not mean the same in Finnland, Germany or Australia, since working conditions, the institutional framework, work identities of teachers appear differently. So what do we mean if we talk about teaching? How do we conceptualise the teaching occupation? What is a teachers work? If teaching is understood as the technical imparting of knowledge or as enabling social participation through allocation and selection this will have differing consequences for those who put these concepts into practice on the micro-level, their possibilities for collective and individual agency. This paper will present the German case, contextualise it against the background of German theories of education (education, learning, teaching, formation) to give evidence how theory and practice of teaching is gradually transformed, focusing on vocational education. Building on this example concepts for transnational comparisons can be identified and the methodology of transnational research can be illustrated.
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