On the transformation of the professional habitus of nursing teachers

Term: January 2022 to December 2024

The HabTrans research project is a joint project of the TUD Dresden University of Technology (project leader: Prof. Dr. Anja Walter) and the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (project leader: Prof. Dr. Heidrun Herzberg). With the project, which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the research team aims to make a significant contribution to the professionalization of teachers in the occupational fields of health and nursing.

The Nursing Professions Act, which came into force on January 1, 2020, poses enormous challenges for teachers at nursing schools in designing the new nursing training. There is potential for professionalization in coping with the requirements, which is the subject of the research here under the focus of habitus transformation. The research objective is realized as an empirical study within a qualitative research design in the federal states of Thuringia and Lower Saxony.

Background

Since the implementation of generalist nursing training in January 2020, nursing schools have faced enormous challenges. The design of the new training profile not only requires a curricular and organizational reorientation of the educational institutions, but also opens up personal development needs for educators. In a broader sense, the changed framework conditions can also be understood as an impulse that can change existing attitudes, patterns of thought and perception, but also professional knowledge, such as didactic strategies of teachers. In the research project, this phenomenon is referred to as habitus transformation. This process is already taking place from "caring" to "teaching", i.e. it begins with one's own nursing training and practice and extends to all phases of teacher training.

Research objective

The research project aims to investigate the influence of the current legal framework conditions and requirements in generalist nursing training on teacher professionalization. This is to be done in particular under the aspect of habitus transformation among teachers in the professional field of nursing. This also includes gaining insights into the implicit knowledge of teachers. Not only the perspective of the individual plays a role here, but also that of the pedagogical collective, since the development of a professional habitus cannot be thought of independently of social construction processes. Based on the insights gained, implications for the training and further education of teachers are to be identified and quality development at nursing schools is to be supported. This also includes the further development of didactic standards, innovations in curriculum development and, in a broader sense, the assurance of quality in generalist nursing training.

Research design

The research project is realized as an empirical study within a qualitative research design within the framework of grounded theory methodology. In order to be able to examine the object of research from different perspectives, a method triangulation of expert interviews, group discussions and participant observations is followed with regard to data collection.

Publications and activities

Publications

Herzberg, Heidrun; Walter, Anja (2023): Die Macht der sozialen Praxis: Rahmungsunklarheiten im Pflegeunterricht. In: berufsbildung 4(2023), S. 21–24. https://doi.org/10.3278/BB2304W007

Herzberg, Heidrun; Walter, Anja; Otte, Ann-Sophie; Dürrschmidt, Andreas (2023): Zur Transformation des professionellen Habitus von Pflegelehrer*innen. Erste Forschungsergebnisse. In: Kristina Kögler, H.-Hugo Kremer und Volkmar Herkner (Hg.): Jahrbuch der berufs- und wirtschaftspädagogischen Forschung 2023: Verlag Barbara Budrich, S. 196–208. https://doi.org/10.3224/84742719

Lectures

Herzberg, Heidrun; Walter, Anja; Dürrschmidt, Andreas; Otte, Ann-Sophie (2024): Arbeitsgruppe „Zur Transformation des professionellen Habitus von Pflegelehrer:innen – eine berufspädagogische Herausforderung“. DGfE-Kongress 2024 (Krisen und Transformationen). Halle (Saale), 10. -13. März 2024 (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg).

Herzberg, Heidrun; Walter, Anja; Dürrschmidt, Andreas; Otte, Ann-Sophie (2023): Professionalisierung der Pflegelehrer:innen im Kontext der Pflegeberufereform in Deutschland. Lernwelten 2023. Frankfurt a. M., 28. September 2023.

Herzberg, Heidrun; Walter, Anja; Dürrschmidt, Andreas; Otte, Ann-Sophie; Mühlberg, Max; Kaßner, Astrid (2023): Kollektive Praxis, Habitus und Wissen im Pflegeberufereformprozess (DFG-Projekt HabTrans). Hochschultage Berufliche Bildung. Bamberg, 21. März 2023.

Herzberg, Heidrun; Walter, Anja; Dürrschmidt, Andreas; Otte, Ann-Sophie (2022): Zur Transformation des professionellen Habitus bei Pflegelehrer:innen. Jahrestagung der Sektion Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft (DGfE) 2022: Ambiguitäten, Ambivalenzen und Antinomien. Freiberg im Breisgau, 27. September 2022.

Workshops

Dürrschmidt, A. (2024). Workshop „Soziale Praxis in pädagogischen Teams“. 2. Fachtag (Qualitätsentwicklung in der Pflegeausbildung: Wo stehen wir? Wo wollen wir hin?). Dresden, 08. März 2024 (Technische Universität Dresden).

Herzberg, Heidrun, Walter, Anja; Dürrschmidt, Andreas; Otte, Ann-Sophie (2023): Reflexiver Austausch über Forschungsbefunde zu habituellen Praktiken von Pflegelehrer:innen. Lernwelten 2023. Frankfurt a. M., 28. September 2023.

Herzberg, Heidrun; Walter, Anja; Dürrschmidt, Andreas; Otte, Ann-Sophie (2023): Workshop im DFG-Projekt HabTrans: „Zur Transformation des professionellen Habitus von Pflegelehrer:innen“. Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg. Senftenberg, 15. -16. Juni 2023.

Press releases

Neues DFG-Forschungsprojekt zur Professionalisierung von Lehrer:innen in der Fachrichtung Gesundheit und Pflege. Pressestelle der Technischen Universität Dresden, Mitteilung vom 12. April 2022. https://idw-online.de/de/news791818

Upcoming soon:

Online-Fortbildung (Neksa) „Vom Pflegen zum Lehren“. 14. Mai 2024 (14:30 – 16.30, digital, tba).

Team and contact

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