Breaking the Taboo!? A Survey on Taboos in Initial Teacher Education

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1 reaking the Taboo!? A Survey on Taboos in Initial Teacher Education Evi Agostini, Nadja Köffler & Christian Kraler Department of Teacher Education and School Research School of Education/ University of Innsbruck AUSTRIA

2 IC Development of teacher education

3 IC Development of teacher education bservations: International student assessments social changes change, reform and development in teacher education on all levels - Initial Teacher Education (ITE) - Induction - Continuous professional development Resistance & pposition

4 IC Viscosity Seemingly contradiction (cf. change management, new public management): g e n e r a l acceptance & approval vs. resistance & opposition i n d e t a i l (concrete realisation) Two levels: Individual level (people/institution): resistance & opposition to the change aspect of development (d i r e c t l y a f f e c t e d ) System level: hierarchial self similar structures dichotomies (cf. Abbott 2001, Kraler 2012): - content level: knowledge - organisational level: power autorized to give directives subject to directives Where does it come from?

5 IC Havighurst Whitehead - Adorno Formal education tension between tradition and innovation A developmental task is midway between an individual need and a societal demand. It assumes an active learner interacting with an active social environment. (Havighurst 1948/72, p. vi) Robert Havighurst ( ) The problem of education is to make the pupil see the wood by means of the trees. [ ] Reformation must begin at the other end. (Whitehead 1929, p. 6/8) A.N. Whitehead ( ) - Authoritarian Personality - Dialectic of Enlightenment (Horkheimer/Adorno. 1947). - Half education Theodor W. Adorno ( )

6 IC Taboos on the teaching profession Education to Maturity (Erziehung zur Mündigkeit, Adorno 1971a) Famous key article: Education after Auschwitz education happens within an ongoing dialectic between individuals and the demands of society, education means an ongoing balancing of interests Taboos on the teaching profession Research Question: Taboos in Teacher Education

7 IC rigins and Use of the Term Taboo st century Polynesian origin Ambiguity and Transculturality Initial Teacher Education T reach of Taboo A Captain James Cook: A Voyage to the Pacific cean

8 IC Research Questions Research questions on taboos in the context of initial teacher education? where? (who?) how #1? (identify/find) T what if? (change) A which? (content) why? (function) how #2? (preserved/mechanism) when? (time/stage)

9 IC Methodological Thoughts on the Potential of Images images as a medium to bring unspoken topics into light/ facilitate access to topics which people are reluctant to talk about (cf. ourdieu 1997, p. 792) Elicitation of discreet topics!? Use a picture. It is worth a thousand words. (Flenders 1911, p.18) advancement to deeper layers of latent and less-reflected topics (cf. remer & Teiwes- Kügler 2007, p.88) attempt to by-pass cognitive obstacles and discursive rationalisation (cf. remer & Teiwes-Kügler 2007, p.85) better expression of sensual, erotic and emotional feelings, experiences, fears and attitudes (cf. remer & Teiwes-Kügler 2007, p.99) images as opus operatum which point out a specific modus operandi (cf. ourdieu 1970, p.151) internalized dealing with taboos/collective patterns projective, associative and expressive manner to convey controversial topics (cf. Kepper 1996) People think in words and feel in images. ( Salcher 1995, p.63) 1st phase: focus on images 2nd phase: triangulation of images and text

10 IC Associative Impact of Images images as a medium to bring unspoken topics into light/ facilitate access to topics which people are reluctant to talk about (cf. ourdieu 1997, p. 792) Elicitation of discreet topics!? Use a picture. It is worth a thousand words. (Flenders 1911, p.18) advancment to deeper layers of latent and less-reflected topics (cf. remer & Teiwes- Kügler 2007, p.88) attempt to by-pass cognitive obstacles and discursive rationalisation (cf. remer & Teiwes-Kügler 2007, p.85) better expression of sensual, erotic and emotional feelings, experiences, fears and attitudes (cf. remer & Teiwes-Kügler 2007, p.99)

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