Do the Teachers Think Logically? (The Everyday Thinking and the Practical Logic in Interviews with High-School Teachers of History Cover Image
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Do the Teachers Think Logically? (The Everyday Thinking and the Practical Logic in Interviews with High-School Teachers of History

Author(s): Stefka Lubenova
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН

Summary/Abstract: Proceeding from the task within the sociological research framework to look at the everyday thinking through the practical logic (the logic according to which we think) perspective this text is an attempt to study some structures (social position — structure of relevancy, context — theme; grammatical tense — distance; identity), which determine the multitude of logics in the course of specific type of conversation as the in-terview The main part of the srticle is based on an analysis of interviews with high school teachers of history. This analysis is localized within the context built up in the first part and is an interpretation of specific characteristics of the teachers' everyday thinking. The teacher, who is not only teacher but at the same time educator, citizen, Bulgarian. Through the example of teacher's stories the process of origination and possible existence of contradiction emerges. A process which is based on the unconscious transition from the position of "the teacher" to this of "the educator', "the educator' "the patriot" etc. from one hand and on the shifting of the context on the other.

  • Issue Year: 29/1997
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 182-191
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Bulgarian