Abstract
New Public Management and neoliberalism has had a huge impact on care and health work imposing demands for documentation, standardization and evaluation. These demands seem to be in contrast with core aspects of the professional competence that are unnoticed. The paper explores how social educator’s work in day care centers can be explored, developed and potentially democratized acknowledging the unnoticed aspects of daily work practices and professional competence. The paper draws on empirical examples from two research projects (Ahrenkiel et al. 2009, 2011) and discuss how noticing and developing the professional competences of pedagogues holds the potential to develop alternatives to neoliberal regulation.
| Bidragets oversatte titel | Upåagtet faglighed i daginstitutionsarbejde og neoliberalismens udfordringer |
|---|---|
| Originalsprog | Engelsk |
| Publikationsdato | 26 apr. 2012 |
| Antal sider | 8 |
| Status | Udgivet - 26 apr. 2012 |
| Begivenhed | 6th Nordic Working Life Conference: Changing World of Work - LO skolen , Helsingør , Danmark Varighed: 25 apr. 2012 → 27 apr. 2012 Konferencens nummer: 6 http://www.sfi.dk/frontpage-7948.aspx |
Konference
| Konference | 6th Nordic Working Life Conference |
|---|---|
| Nummer | 6 |
| Lokation | LO skolen |
| Land/Område | Danmark |
| By | Helsingør |
| Periode | 25/04/2012 → 27/04/2012 |
| Andet | Control, understood as employee’s control over their work, has for<br/>decades been considered as a crucial factor for the quality of working life.<br/>Karasek’s famous Demand/Control model has been an important expression of the widespread understanding of the importance of employee-control in work.<br/>However, Karasek’s model is only one expression of a much broader movement<br/>related to the development of working life, where job development, influence,<br/>autonomy, direct participation, empowerment and learning could flourish.<br/>Work has changed dramatically since the D/C-model was created, and many<br/>alternative concepts to interpret the quality of working life have emerged. Many of these concepts seem to be better adjusted to the working life of the ‘knowledge society’.<br/><br/>The main point of this paper is: Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. It<br/>is important to keep the concept of control as one (among some few) fundamentals when understanding the quality of working life. However, it is necessary to rethink our understanding of employee-control, because opportunities and constraints for getting control in current working life are very different from what they were when the concept of employee-control first were developed.<br/><br/>The paper is based on empirical research form the last six years in which case<br/>studies have been conceptually framed by the concept of controli. Here the various understandings of employee-control are summarized and boarder theoretical perspectives are suggested |
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