Collective Patterns of Teachers’ Action: A Documentary Interpretation of the Construction of Habitual Knowledge

Sławomir Krzychała; Beata Zamorska

doi:10.18778/1733-8077.10.4.04

Authors

Sławomir Krzychała University of Lower Silesia, Poland
Beata Zamorska University of Lower Silesia, Poland

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.10.4.04

Keywords:

Cultural Practices, Conjunctive/Habitual Knowledge, Patterns of Orientation, Teachers, School, Documentary Interpretation

Abstract

This article presents a research project carried out by academic researchers and practicing teachers who made an attempt to reconstruct the complexity of school reality and understand the cultural activity of the teams of teachers and students. We gained entirely different pictures of schools, filled with a unique language and symbols, specific organizational culture, exceptional sensitivity, methods of expressing understanding or disapproval of particular ways of perceiving in the school reality. A particular asset of our method of cultural studies is sensitivity to varieties of local determinants, focusing attention on conjunctive action patterns and cooperation with social actors.

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Author Biographies

Sławomir Krzychała, University of Lower Silesia, Poland

Sławomir Krzychała, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Educational Studies, University of Lower Silesia in Wroclaw, Poland. The key areas of his research include investigating the school as a socio-cultural system, professional teachers’ activities, and social construction of educational biography by adolescents and adults. Moreover, he is involved in educational participatory action research. His publications focus on the methodology of social research, in particular the documentary method.
Beata Zamorska, University of Lower Silesia, Poland

Beata Zamorska, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the University of Lower Silesia in Wroclaw, Poland. Her research interests include cultural historical approaches in education, activity theory, and dialogical pedagogy. Her intervention research investigates the subject’s and collective agency in the field of knotworking type hybrid learning activities and collaborative aspects of creativity. She is also a member of the International Society for Cultural and Activity Research. As of October 2014, she will be accepting her new position at the College of Uni-Terra in Poznan, Poland.

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