You are cordially invited to attend the lecture "Transition Problems in Higher Education: Habitus, Capital, Fields" by Prof. Dr. Klaus Feldmann (University of Hanover) as part of the Research Seminar of the Education Sciences Group.

Date: Friday, December 6, 2019, from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Location:D4.0.022

Please register at flessky@wu.ac.at

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Transition Problems in Higher Education: Habitus, Capital, Fields

Abstract:

Curricula vitae, career and educational paths, transitions, and opportunities are becoming increasingly diverse and confusing. Due to the growing complexity of social conditions and the flexibility and mobility this requires, educational processes and transitions are increasingly characterized by risky decisions and disruptions. In educational institutions, client-related selection and deficit descriptions and corresponding measures (counseling, therapy, etc.) are frequently used. Structural improvements to transition problems have been researched scientifically, but only partially implemented due to the inertia of the institutions. Bourdieu's tools can be used to describe and explain transition problems. Qualitative empirical studies based on Bourdieu's approach lead to findings that can also serve as a basis for individual and institutional measures and correspond to the empirically surveyed wishes of students.

Speaker:

Klaus Feldmann is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Hanover and is intensively engaged with Pierre Bourdieu's relational theory in the context of educational processes and educational transitions. His current publications, together with ao.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Erna Nairz-Wirth, have appeared in the British Journal of Sociology of Education, the European Educational Research Journal, and Pedagogy, Culture & Society, among others.