Doing Transitions: On Making and Becoming Across the Life Course

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

"Life course transitions are shaped and produced through social practices – this assumption is the starting point of Doing Transitions. This interdisciplinary approach seeks to complement current research on transitions in the life course, by analyzing how transitions are constituted in process. The approach is relational from the start, focusing on the interrelation between discourses, institutional regulation, pedagogical action and individual processes of learning, education, and coping:
• How are transitions produced and framed by the discursive articulation of demands, distinctions of success and failure, and risk identification?
• How are transitions regulated and processed at the institutional level? What pedagogical aspects are included?
• How are transitions shaped through individual processes of coping, learning, and education?

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Sub Unit

• World Education Research Association

Chairs

• Barbara Stauber, University of Tübingen

• Kevin Stutzel, University of Frankfurt

• Andreas Walther, University of Frankfurt

Papers

• Becoming Reflexive: Understanding Transitions in the Life Course From a Relational-Educational Perspective - Kevin Stutzel, University of Frankfurt

• Becoming Academic: Working-Class Students in Austrian and German Higher Education - Flora Petrik, University of Tubingen

• Making Children Become Pupils in Comparative Perspective: On Genealogies of Didactic Beliefs - Natascha Shalutkevich, University of Frankfurt

• Becoming More Sustainable? Learning Processes of Career Transitioners - Elisa Thevenot, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

• Becoming a Non-Breadwinner: Biographical Learning of Men in Germany Reducing Working Hours or Opting Out of Paid Work - Lukas Kammerlander, University of Tubingen