Pädagogische Potentiale von Kontaktzonen. Paradoxien und Irritationen einer schulischen Begegnung
In: Paragrana, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 179-191
Abstract
In this research project the concept of the contact zone is being extended to the field of school encounters, where the subjects in interactions are confronted with the other. Here, the contact zone is not restricted to be of colonial relatedness but focuses the power relations when dealing with one′s own and other′s types of perception and action. The clash with unfamiliar cultural influences can be categorized as a contact zone, if the situation is characterized by an uncommon or extraordinary interaction form. Thus the subjects are not entirely foreign to each other. Still the metaphor of the contact zone might be productive for the empirical field of interpreting practices in which pedagogical differences or confronting orientations emerge rather performatively in a way not planned didactically.