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
This paper will reflect on ways of understanding the ‘context’ and ‘boundaries’ of teaching. It will reflect on the other papers in this symposium and draw attention to the way educational work is more explicitly spatialised than in the past. The 20th C bureaucratic organisation of education is reconsolidating as networked organisation, coordinated through market mechanisms and networked governance. This kind of spatial analysis highlights the problematic nature of boundaries, and the representation of bounded spaces (eg. occupation, teaching, Germany) which can be treated as simple categories that anchor research. It also reveals boundary zones and the agencies that constitute them. Reflecting on current Australian education reforms in tertiary education and the agency of teachers, I develop a conceptualisation of context that identifies ‘territory’, ‘flow’ and ‘boundary work’ as important and defining features of educational work. The terms and conditions that are mobilised around these features provide a framework for understanding teaching as an occupation.
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