
Geography Teacher TrainingSpace, Nature and Society
Tel.: 044 63 55147Room number: Y25 L 08itta.bauer@geo.uzh.ch
Presentations
2019
26. June 2019 |
2018
18 January 2018 |
19 January 2018 |
2017
7 April 2017 |
2016
1 September 2016 |
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2015
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4 February 2015 |
2014
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2013
21-23 November 2013 |
10 April 2013 |
2012
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Research Interests
Geographies of Education
International social and educational research has recently been influenced by actor-network theory (ANT). The research project aims to introduce a socio-material reading of geoggraphy and geography teaching. For this purpose, the theoretical key concepts of ANT are iluustrated by examples that are drawn from an empirical study of a school in Zurich. To offer a practical solution for teaching geography differANTly, the project elaborates some teaching material inviting teachers and students to follow socio-material traces in geography.
My research is guided by the following questions:
- In which ways can geographies of education be conceptualized?
- How can a focus on subjective, personal geographies contribute to a deeper understanding of educational choices, trajectories and biographical transitions?
- Which methods are suitable for studying geographies of education?
- How can newer theoretical approaches (e.g. ANT, non-representational theory) inform our interest in the multiple ways of doing geography in and outside school? And how can these ideas be translated into teaching geography?
- If transitions between different educational contexts are seen as important rites of passage for the individual, what do these changes reveal about the question of subjectivity and processes of subjectivation/objectivation?
- How are schools as social institutions responding to the constantly changing policies due to neoliberal shifts in this field? Are the schools answers rather a reaction to or an active process of re-inventing themselves?
- What are the mutual and seminal relations of the academic geographies of education and the day-to-day routines of education geographies (or geography at school) for students as well as teachers?
Research Project (in collaboration with Dr. Sara Landolt):
"Jugendliche auf dem Weg ins Gymnasium. Wie wirken Bildungsaspirationen, Übergänge und Marketisierungsprozesse in Bildungskontexten zusammen?" Abstract