
Geography Teacher TrainingSpace, Nature and Society
Tel.: 044 63 55147Room number: Y25 L 08itta.bauer@geo.uzh.ch
Presentations
2022
15 September 2022
Methodenvielfalt entdecken, Praxisbeispiele austauschen: Qualitative Sozialforschung mit Jugendlichen in Bildungskontexten. Moderation Workshop, Humangeographische Sommerschule in Bernau/D. 23 June 2022 Übergänge ins Gymnasium als Schauplatz neuer «Klassenkämpfe», neoliberaler Bildungsprivatisierung und Techniken des Widerstands von Jugendlichen in Zürich (Schweiz). Vortrag im Forschungskolloquium der Arbeitsgruppe Prof. C. Hintermann, Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung, Universität Wien. |
2021
31 August 2021 Neoliberal entanglements of private and public actors at the marketplace of education in Zurich. Presentation (online) together with Dr. Sara Landolt (UZH) at the RGS-IBG Annual Int. Conference, London.
29 June 2021 A changing geography of educational opportunities in Zurich? Presentation (online) together with Carlotta Reh (UZH) at SSA Conference, Geneva. |
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 geography and geography teaching. For this purpose, the theoretical key concepts of ANT are ilustrated 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