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23 SES 10 B, Theorizing Educational Boundary Work
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A spectre of financial crisis haunting Europe. In some countries, such as the UK, Greece and Spain, harsh austerity measures are further accelerating the impact of neo-liberal policies: new managerialism, an audit culture, performativity and crises of professional identity. This paper considers ways in which these developments generate particular forms of educational work within and across boundaries of time. In doing so, it draws on critical theorisations of time by Pierre Bourdieu, David Harvey and others to challenge philosophical notions of time as a ‘given’ internal or external context for human action; and instead considers time as a phenomenon generated by human action. It focuses on tensions between different time orders, as the spectre of abstract clock time – driven by exchange-values – haunts concrete process time – driven by use-values of human need. It analyses two case studies of educational work supporting young people’s school-to-work transitions, in England – where this service was one of the first hit hard by austerity – and in Germany, with somewhat less unfavourable funding conditions. Both reveal resistance by practitioners to policy pressures reshaping the boundaries of time in their work, highlighting crucial issues for public debate, policy formation and professional practice.
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Programme by Networks, ECER 2021
00. Central Events (Keynotes, EERA-Panel, EERJ Round Table, Invited Sessions)
Network 1. Continuing Professional Development: Learning for Individuals, Leaders, and Organisations
Network 2. Vocational Education and Training (VETNET)
Network 3. Curriculum Innovation
Network 4. Inclusive Education
Network 5. Children and Youth at Risk and Urban Education
Network 6. Open Learning: Media, Environments and Cultures
Network 7. Social Justice and Intercultural Education
Network 8. Research on Health Education
Network 9. Assessment, Evaluation, Testing and Measurement
Network 10. Teacher Education Research
Network 11. Educational Effectiveness and Quality Assurance
Network 12. LISnet - Library and Information Science Network
Network 13. Philosophy of Education
Network 14. Communities, Families and Schooling in Educational Research
Network 15. Research Partnerships in Education
Network 16. ICT in Education and Training
Network 17. Histories of Education
Network 18. Research in Sport Pedagogy
Network 19. Ethnography
Network 20. Research in Innovative Intercultural Learning Environments
Network 22. Research in Higher Education
Network 23. Policy Studies and Politics of Education
Network 24. Mathematics Education Research
Network 25. Research on Children's Rights in Education
Network 26. Educational Leadership
Network 27. Didactics – Learning and Teaching
Network 28. Sociologies of Education
Network 29. Reserach on Arts Education
Network 30. Research on Environmental und Sustainability Education
Network 31. Research on Language and Education (LEd)
Network 32. Organizational Education
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