Practices of distinction in science education as a result of subject-cultural practices and school regulations

Beschreibung

Following Judith Butler (1990), gender is an amalgam of political regulation and discursive and cultural practices. These regulations are reflected in patterns of perception, beliefs, conventions and practices of a specific scientific disciplines well as in school regulations and norms. They are embedded in teachers' implicit theories about teaching and learning and their conception of the subject taught. These implicit theories determine the discursive and cultural practices of teaching (Gess-Newsome, 2015).. By deconstructing these practices the underlying symbolic order and the associated power relations can be reconstructed and discrimination mechanisms that shape the (subject-) teaching can be revealed. On the basis of the reconstruction of a teacher's specific biology lesson, it is shown how the specific design of the initiation into the university subject influence teaching routines. Furthermore the (often emotional) motivational reasons for choosing biology as a teaching subject are in conflict with the disciplinary conception of biology as a "hard science" (Kastenhofer, 2004). If not solved, this dilemma leads to upheavals in the lesson design. The thereof resulting practices interfere with the perceptual patterns, norms, habits, and common routines in the institutions of education. As a consequence differences in learning and motivation are produced along the categories gender and natio-ethno-cultural background (Mescheril & Hoffarth, 2009). The data are based on a group discussion, audio recordings of lessons, lesson observations, interviews and a 'study' written by teachers as part of a two-year continuing education program. The (transcribed) data are analysed and interpreted by an interdisciplinary research team based on the documentary method (Bohnsack, 2014/Nohl, 2012/Przyborski, 2004) and discussed in the form of a case study (Yin, 2009) .

Zeitraum	21 Aug. 2018
Ereignistitel	ATEE Annual Conference 2018: A future for all – teaching for a sustainable society
Veranstaltungstyp	Konferenz
Ort	Gävle, SchwedenAuf Karte anzeigen
Bekanntheitsgrad	International