Care and existence: Adult students in health and social care encounter with practice

Author(s):

Katarina Lagercrantz All(presenting / submitting)

Conference:

ECER 2012

Network:

02. Vocational Education and Training (VETNET)

Format:

Paper

Session Information

02 SES 13 A, Work-Based Learning: Insights Into EU-Projects And Case Studies

Parallel Paper Session

Time:

2012-09-21

11:00-12:30

Room:

FCT - Aula 21

Chair:

Pekka Ilmari Kamarainen

Contribution

The overall purpose of this study is to explore the experiences adult students in health and social care education in upper secondary school have of encounters during practice. There have been changes in health and social care as well as in education, both in reference to organisation, pedagogy and teaching practice during the last fifteen years. The group of adult students in health and social care vary a lot regarding ethnicity, language, previous educational background and overall experiences. My research work leading to a P.h. D deals with questions concerning existential aspects of the student’s meaning- making in their encounter with practice, how care of themselves and the other takes shape and how the encounter with practice and theory will influence the identity of the students.

Theoretical framework in the study has a phenomenological-hermeneutic approach influenced by the German philosophers Hans George Gadamer, Martin Heidegger and the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur. Experience- based phenomenology, as well as the hermeneutic orientations are used in this study to gain a deeper understanding of the complexity of the student’s experiences with encounters in practice.

Method

My empirical material consists of deep interviews with fifteen students. In my first analysis I have thematised my empirics within the context of a phenomenological-hermeneutic approach according to; lived body, lived space, lived room and lived relations.

Expected Outcomes

Expected conclusion/findings: I will interview the students with the hope of expanding the knowledge of the students experience and thereby increase the possibility for the education to offer the students what they need in their work in health and social care

References

Paul Ricoeur Hans- Georg Gadamer Martin Heidegger

Author Information

Katarina Lagercrantz All (presenting / submitting)

Stockholm University

Department of education

Bromma

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