PurposeThe article deals with competition between primary schools in Berlin. The focus is on the perception of competition and the process of student selection – despite school law restrictions for primary state schools. The aim is to find out whether and in what way primary school leaders perceive a competitive situation and how they act in view of second-order competition.Design/methodology/approachBerlin primary school leaders' statements were analyzed, which were collected and evaluated using quantitative and qualitative methods.FindingsResults show that schools with a good reputation are more likely to benefit from competition because a good reputation may increase the demand for spots at that school and may enable the school to select “desirable” students. State school leaders are more limited in their actions, while private school principals are more autonomous and are better able to make a match between a school's orientation and families' ideas.Research limitations/implicationsThe study is limited by its small sample size, yet it provides a basis for further research and gives much needed attention to selection processes at primary schools in Germany.Originality/valueThis is one of a few studies looking at the perspectives of primary school leaders regarding the competitive situation and in particular the selection of students.
ZusammenfassungIn diesem Artikel werden die Ergebnisse einer praxeologischen Diskursanalyse zum Schreiben von Grundschullehrer*innen über das Lehren und Lernen mit digitalen Medien in den Fokus gerückt. Auf Basis einer Analyse von Beiträgen aus praxisinstruktiven Zeitschriften für die Grundschule wird in den Blick genommen, welche Begründungsfiguren sowie Subjektpositionen konstituiert werden. Es wird analysiert, wie sich die schreibenden Grundschullehrer*innen als Orientierung vermittelnde Subjekte und als Mitgestalter*innen einer technologisierten und in Teilen gamifizierten Unterrichtspraxis positionieren, in der die generalisierten Schüler*innensubjekte motiviert und selbsttätig lernen.Abstract This article discusses the results of a praxeological discourse analysis of primary school teachers' writing about teaching and learning with digital media. On the basis of an analysis of contributions from teacher journals for primary school, the focus will be on which legitimations and subject positions are constituted. It will be analysed how the writing primary school teachers position themselves as subjects who are orientating pupils who are co-creators of a technologised and in part gamified teaching practice in which pupils enjoy learning and become active themselves.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.