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Der Soziologe Johannes TWARDELLA analysiert in seinem Buch "Pädagogischer Pessimismus" den vollständigen Verlauf einer Unterrichtsstunde im Fach Deutsch in der 10. Jahrgangsstufe einer Hauptschule. Aus einem "wunderschönen guten Morgen" – so beginnt das Transkript – wird eine kleine Katastrophe. Wie konnte das passieren? Die detaillierte Analyse TWARDELLAs zeigt eindrücklich, dass das Verhältnis der Lehrkraft zu den Schülerinnen und Schülern sowie zu ihrer Profession gestört und widersprüchlich ist. Auf der einen Seite ist der Unterricht geprägt von einer negativen Anthropologie des Schülers bzw. der Schülerin, dem pädagogischen Pessimismus. Auf der anderen Seite besteht aus Sicht der Lehrkraft der optimistische Glaube an die didaktische Lösung des handlungsorientierten Unterrichts. Letztlich wird erkennbar, dass sich durch eine Self-Fulfilling Prophecy diese abgründige Kombination zu einer veränderungsresistenten Ideologie verhärtet und am Ende nur noch die Aufrechterhaltung des Betriebs steht – so sinnfrei er auch geworden sein mag. Das vorliegende Buch wird in den Kontext der derzeitigen bildungspolitischen und bildungswissenschaftlichen Diskussion gesetzt.
During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, social restrictions and social distancing policies forced large parts of social life to take place within the household. However, comparatively little is known about how private living situations shaped individuals experiences of this crisis. To investigate this issue, we analyze how experiences and concerns vary across living arrangements along two dimensions that may be associated with social disadvantage: loneliness and care. In doing so, we employ quantitative text analysis on open-ended questions from survey data on a sample of 1,073 individuals living in Germany. We focus our analyses on four different household structures: living alone, shared living without children, living with a partner and children, and single parents. We find that single parents (who are primarily single mothers) are at high risk of experiencing care-related worries, particularly regarding their financial situation, while individuals living alone are most likely to report feelings of loneliness. Those individuals living in shared houses, with or without children, had the lowest risk of experiencing both loneliness and care-related worries. These findings illustrate that the living situation at home substantially impacts how individuals experienced and coped with the pandemic situation during the first wave of the pandemic.
In the process of life course transitions, relations between the self and the world transform, which can according to Hartmut Rosa be framed as resonance. This article focuses on the retirement transition and thus on the exit from gainful employment as one of the central spheres of our world relationship in late modernity. It raises the following questions: How do experiences of resonance change in the course of the retirement transition? Does the loss of gainful employment lead to disruptions or even the absence of resonance in terms of alienation? And which role do dimensions of social inequality, such as gender, income, education or mental health status play for resonance transformations in the transition to retirement? In terms of a reflexive mixed-methods design, this article combines quantitative panel data from the German Ageing Survey (2008–17) with a qualitative longitudinal study from the project “Doing Retiring” (2017–21). Our results show that the transition from work to retirement entails a specific “resonance choreography” that comprises a phase of disaffection (lack of resonance) at the end of one’s working life followed by a liminal phase in which people search for intensified experiences of resonance. We outline practices in which transitioning subjects seek out resonance, and the experiences they make within this process according to their social positions. We thereby find that the desire for resonance tends to be beyond intentional resonance management which manifests in products and services like coaching or wellness. In our conclusions, we discuss how resonance theory and retirement research/life course research can be fruitfully combined, but also highlight the methodological challenges the operationalization of resonance entails.