Caring Disposition and Subordination. Swedish Health and Social Care Teachers' Conceptions of Important Vocational Knowledge

Autor/inn/en	Rehn, Helena; Eliasson, Eva
Titel	Caring Disposition and Subordination. Swedish Health and Social Care Teachers' Conceptions of Important Vocational Knowledge
Quelle	In: Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 67 (2015) 4, S.558-577 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-6820
DOI	10.1080/13636820.2015.1091031
Schlagwörter	Vocational Education; Secondary School Students; Education Work Relationship; Teacher Attitudes; Vocational Education Teachers; Interviews; Caring; Gender Differences; Social Class; Empathy; Correlation; Foreign Countries; Allied Health Personnel; Health Education; Qualitative Research; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Sekundarschüler; Lehrerverhalten; Ausbilder; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Care; Pflege; Sorge; Betreuung; Geschlechterkonflikt; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Empathie; Korrelation; Ausland; Gesundheitsaufklärung; Gesundheitsbildung; Gesundheitserziehung; Qualitative Forschung; Schweden
Abstract	Based on the increasing demands for vocational training in upper secondary school to adapt to workplace conditions, the aim of this article is to explore vocational teachers' conceptions regarding vocational knowledge. Drawing on a social constructionist perspective, this study analysed data from 17 interviews. The study showed how power dynamics, such as gender and class, affect the teachers' conceptions. The most important expertise, according to the teachers, was related to a feminine caring disposition in which empathy and communication were identified as core abilities. However, these abilities needed to be balanced in order to avoid becoming too emotional. There was a strong link to class, for example, the hierarchical structure was revealed when the teachers spoke of a nursing assistant having to know when to call a nurse rather than a doctor or an ambulance. The findings raise questions concerning what it means for the construction of vocational habitus when a superordinate group trains a subordinate group. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01