TY - JOUR

T1 - Theory and practice in the workshop

T2 - using the gap

AU - Haastrup, Lisbeth

A2 - Knudsen, Lars Emmerik Damgaard

PY - 2015/6/2

Y1 - 2015/6/2

N2 - AbstractThe ways the relationship between theory and practice is understood and implemented in studyprogrammes is a question that has been posed since antiquity, and that the Bologna processand the reform of the professional bachelor programme problem have intensified also inDenmark. Professional bachelor programmes have become increasingly abstract, and theindividual educational institutions have been merged into university colleges [Undervisningsministeriet(2007). Bekendtgørelse om uddannelsen til professionsbachelor som læreri folkeskolen. BEK nr 219 af 12/03/2007. Ministry of Education. Proclamation of ProfessionalBachelor Teacher Education Programme. Retrieved May 2014 from, https://www.retsinformation.dk/Forms/R0710.aspx?id=25302]. In this article, we reflect on the epistemologicalchallenges we faced during a research project on the correlation between theory and practiceand drop-out rates at four professional bachelor programmes in Denmark. Our point ofdeparture was to view theory and practice as across time and place. But the contrasts among thefour programmes made it clear to us that the various understandings of the relations betweentheory and practice that we observed had to be seen as mixed cultural practices undergoing aprocess of change. The concepts of theory and practice, the places, the academic content andteaching methods, and knowledge forms we observed were mutually interdependent, andfought for recognition as central to the way in which professional bachelor programmes werereproduced and transformed. In this article, we use the comprehensive transformationprocesses of professional bachelor programmes as reasons for reframing/restating questionsregarding theory and practice in which theory and practice are viewed as cultural forms ineducation and professional practice. We suggest an actual didactics of theory–practice as partof professional bachelor programme practice for lecturers, students and supervisors.

AB - AbstractThe ways the relationship between theory and practice is understood and implemented in studyprogrammes is a question that has been posed since antiquity, and that the Bologna processand the reform of the professional bachelor programme problem have intensified also inDenmark. Professional bachelor programmes have become increasingly abstract, and theindividual educational institutions have been merged into university colleges [Undervisningsministeriet(2007). Bekendtgørelse om uddannelsen til professionsbachelor som læreri folkeskolen. BEK nr 219 af 12/03/2007. Ministry of Education. Proclamation of ProfessionalBachelor Teacher Education Programme. Retrieved May 2014 from, https://www.retsinformation.dk/Forms/R0710.aspx?id=25302]. In this article, we reflect on the epistemologicalchallenges we faced during a research project on the correlation between theory and practiceand drop-out rates at four professional bachelor programmes in Denmark. Our point ofdeparture was to view theory and practice as across time and place. But the contrasts among thefour programmes made it clear to us that the various understandings of the relations betweentheory and practice that we observed had to be seen as mixed cultural practices undergoing aprocess of change. The concepts of theory and practice, the places, the academic content andteaching methods, and knowledge forms we observed were mutually interdependent, andfought for recognition as central to the way in which professional bachelor programmes werereproduced and transformed. In this article, we use the comprehensive transformationprocesses of professional bachelor programmes as reasons for reframing/restating questionsregarding theory and practice in which theory and practice are viewed as cultural forms ineducation and professional practice. We suggest an actual didactics of theory–practice as partof professional bachelor programme practice for lecturers, students and supervisors.

KW - Theory and practice

KW - Material Culture

KW - Materiel kultur

KW - Theory and practice

KW - Cultural analysis

KW - Materiel kultur

U2 - 10.1080/19012276.2015.1031959

DO - 10.1080/19012276.2015.1031959

M3 - Journal article

VL - 67

SP - 117

EP - 135

JO - Nordic Psychology

JF - Nordic Psychology

SN - 1904-0016

IS - 2

ER -