Why Collectivity? On the Problematization of Documentary Perspectives on Teaching

Authors

  • Daniel Goldmann Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.3.3241

Keywords:

documentary method, praxeological sociology of knowledge, conjunction, teaching, contextural analysis, methodology, school theory

Abstract

The documentary method, which was originally developed as a milieu research method in the study of friendship and leisure groups, has established itself in various fields of educational science. This also applies to school and teaching research. In this article, critical questions are asked about the fit between the documentary method and the subject of teaching. This is illustrated by the example of the systematic divergence of student and teacher habitus and thus the lack of a shared framework of orientation in the classroom. The thesis developed on the basis of this special problem and its solution formulates that observations of teaching with the documentary method tend to harmonize because of the primacy and thus the search for the conjunctive, which is maintained despite the absence of a common frame of orientation. As consequence, complexity dimensions can be overlooked. In my contribution, I trace the empirical and theoretical consequences of this primacy of conjunction and substantiate the thesis that a shift in primacy and an extension to other principles of sociality are necessary for a more comprehensive understanding of the complexity of teaching. I thus address the fundamental question of the limits of the documentary method set by its methodological assumptions.

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Author Biography

Daniel Goldmann, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

Daniel GOLDMANN ist Mitarbeiter an der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen in einer schultheoretisch informierten qualitativ-rekonstruktiven Forschung in den Themenfeldern Schulentwicklung, LehrerInneninteraktion, unterrichtliche Vermittlungs- und Reflexionsprozesse.

Published

2019-09-26

How to Cite

Goldmann, D. (2019). Why Collectivity? On the Problematization of Documentary Perspectives on Teaching. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 20(3). https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.3.3241