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Ethnography and Education | 2012

Unpacking recognition and esteem in school pedagogies

Christoph Wulf; Martin Bittner; Iris Clemens; Ingrid Kellermann

The article focuses on pedagogical practices of recognition and esteem (Wertschätzung) and on the question of how those practices can be appropriately studied and epistemologically grasped. The investigation involves an inner-city elementary school in a socio-economically problematic district. With regard to the communication forms in this specific school, we identify specific practices which constitute a culture of recognition and esteem that provides a reference framework and performative space to those involved. But what does a culture of recognition and esteem designate? Three heuristic categories have been developed as a result of our study in order to better describe and define the phenomenon: (1) the act of recognition and esteem, (2) the creation of an atmosphere of recognition and esteem and (3) the practices of shaping a culture of recognition and esteem. We analyse the verbal, non-verbal and performative aspects of communication within the context of schooling. The data were produced as part of an ethnographic research collaboration that has lasted over 12 years and which was initiated in the context of the Berlin Ritual Study at Freie Universität Berlin. The ethnography is based on participant observation and videography of pupils aged 8–12 years. Our systematisation of recognition and esteem shows a potentiality to describe a phenomenon without reducing complexity and highlights the everyday work of pedagogical practice.


Paragrana | 2011

Polished Person or Parasite? The Implications of Education for Social Identities and Self Concepts and the Culturally Diverse Emotional Consequences. An Indian Example

Iris Clemens

Abstract Education is not only an innocent tool but leads to many conflicts all over the world as well. For an analysis of these conflicts one has to keep in mind that education as a concept is a culturally diverse construction with very different connotations in theory as much as in the everyday world. Taking the example of an empirical study on concepts of education and educated persons in an Indian urban middle class sample, the implications of cultural constructions of education for self concepts, social identities and therefore for social inclusion and exclusion will be discussed. Following the figure of Sanskritization by Srinivas, the founded pattern of argumentation in the data is called educationalization.


Soziale Systeme | 2010

Self-desriptions of the World Society in non-western contexts and the implications for the general theoretical approach : an Analysis of the Edicts of Ancient India Emperor Ashoka

Iris Clemens

Zusammenfassung Wie Rudolf Stichweh im Anschluss an Niklas Luhmann ausgeführt hat, sind Selbstbeschreibungen ein basaler Bestandteil aller sozialen Systeme und insbesondere für die Analyse der emergierenden Weltgesellschaft grundlegend. Die Diskussion hat bislang jedoch zumeist nur westliche Quellen berücksichtigt. Ausgehend von den Säulenedikten des indischen Königs Ashoka wird der Frage nachgegangen, ob frühe Formen einer Selbstbeschreibung der Weltgesellschaft auch in nichteuropäischen Kontexten gefunden werden können. Mit der Analyse dieser 2200 Jahre alten Edikte kann die These gestützt werden, dass bestimmte Formen solcher Selbstbeschreibungen der Weltgesellschaft auch für den indischen Kontext nachgewiesen werden können. Der Blick kann so global geweitet werden, und es wird in Zweifel gezogen, dass es sich um rein europäische semantische Erfindungen handelt. Zudem kann durch die Einbeziehung anderer als menschlicher Adressaten in der vorgefundenen Semantik der Fokus von einer im Westen vorherrschenden anthropologischen auf eine ›biozentrische‹ Perspektive verschoben werden.


Paragrana | 2010

Wertschätzung als pädagogische Kommunikationsform im Spannungsfeld von actio und passio : über die Paradoxieanfälligkeit von Unterricht

Iris Clemens

Zusammenfassung Die eher marginalisierte Frage der Bedeutung von Emotionen im Kontext Schule wird aufgegriffen und der Begriff der Wertschätzung als mögliche pädagogische Kommunikationsform analysiert. Dabei wird als eine Form der Beschreibung von actio und passio die systemtheoretische Unterscheidung von Handeln und Erleben eingeführt. Die internalen und externalen Zuschreibungsformen werden genutzt, um die kommunikativen Implikationen gelingender Wertschätzungsakte zu klären.


Paragrana | 2009

Lost in Transition? Managing paradoxical situations by inventing identities

Iris Clemens

Abstract The article focuses on Ashim Ahluwalias documentation John and Jane, which describes the living conditions, life styles and ambitions of six call centre employees in Mumbai at a time when call centres were not yet questioned in Indian society in respect of their working conditions or social implications. One main focus of the documentation therefore is a more general transition of Asian countries. The call centre agents embody almost perfectly this time of transition: Indians during day time who have never been abroad but become well trained Americans at night, their bodies still in India, but their mind overseas. This striking example is taken to analyse the framing of humans in times of globalisation and the related virtuality of constructions, including their own bodies.


Zeitschrift Fur Padagogik | 2009

Die Herausforderung Indigener Theorien. Die Frage nach der Relevanz kulturtheoretischer Perspektiven in der Erziehungswissenschaft am Beispiel der Emergenz Indigener Theorien

Iris Clemens


Studia Paedagogica | 2011

Komunikační praktiky v rámci kultury školy: uplatňování kultury uznání a respektu

Christoph Wulf; Martin Bittner; Iris Clemens; Ingrid Kellermann


Man in India | 2004

Education and women : about castes, marriage markets and the illusion of deconstruction

Iris Clemens


Archive | 2017

Pilz, Matthias (Hrsg.): India: Preparation for the world of work : education system and school to work transition. Wiesbaden, 2016

Iris Clemens


Archive | 2017

Schweigendes Wissen in kulturtheoretischer und epistemologischer Perspektive

Iris Clemens

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Christoph Wulf

Free University of Berlin

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Martin Bittner

Free University of Berlin

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Monika Sujbert

University of Luxembourg

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