Session Information
23 SES 11 B, Educational Work in Interdependent Times, Concept, Cases and Characteristics
Symposium
Contribution
This paper highlights the ways in which the welfare policy of the ‘competition state’ reorders educational work in human services. The making of a collaborative, flexible human service workforce is the key element in welfare policy in Europe, as in Finland – but within limits. I cross-reflect the disturbances in the worlds of work and education of care practitioners and their educators. My entry point is the upper secondary level occupation titled practical nurses for social and health care (in Finnish lähihoitaja). The education reform created a shared trans-sectoral occupational territory for health care and social care by integrating seven health care occupations and three social care occupations into one umbrella curriculum. I have introduced evidence on practical nurses, their vague position, segmentation and inequalities; experiences of being unknown and being ’trapped’ between sectors, and grades, and trade union competition. This case turns attention to their educators, by examining how educational work is being re-ordered. I focus on teaching workforce: occupational segmentation, trans-sector divisions of labour and hierarchies, and trade union affiliations. I am interested how educators accommodate their ethos and commitment to those institutional inadequacies that the new policy framework implies. (200 words)
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