Project
(Further) Development of Pedagogical Professionalism through Reflection on Theory and Practice. A qualitative study on learning and reflection processes of professionally experienced students in the B. A. Educational Science
- Headed by:
- Elise Glaß
- Project Status:
- ongoing
E-Mail: elise.glass@fernuni-hagen.de
Supervision: Prof Eva Cendon
The project exlores the impact the study program on the (further) professionalization of pedagogically active persons and strives to elaborate the concept of professionalization and its forms of knowledge in educational science. Theoretically, the project will draw on a competence-based approach to professionalism and on didactic approaches to meaning and forms of reflection in studies.
Specifically, the project will examine how students of educational science tackling pedagogical tasks assess the role of their studies for the (further) development of their pedagogical professionalism and which learning and reflection processes evolve during their studies in the confrontation between theory or science and practice.
Methodologically, the project is settled in the framework of Grounded Theory. After a quantitative pre-survey for sample generation and topic delimitation, the focus of the study will be on guided interviews with Bachelor's students of educational science who already take on or have taken on pedagogical tasks professionally and who would like to work in pedagogy in the future. The interviews will be analysed according to the coding paradigm of Grounded Theory and, depending on the significance of the material, will be supplemented by a preceding content-analytical sample-related evaluation (type of university or professional context of the interviewees) or by typing (types of learning and reflection).
Personal website for the PhD project
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