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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY OF EDUCATION
Volume 23, Issue 2, Pages 165-181Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/BF03172743
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development; institutions; ruptures; symbolic resources; transitions
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In this paper two models are proposed for analysing transitions in education. Firstly, transitions are the processes that follow ruptures perceived by people. They include learning, identity change, and meaning making processes. Secondly, processes of change are observed through a semiotic prism, articulating self-other-object-sense of the object for self, and located in a specific social frame. Transitions are thus analysed as reconfigurations of such semiotic prism. The paper proposes to highlight the role of institutions as social frames likely to facilitate, or constrain, such reconfigurations. The role of institutions in transitions is discussed through three case studies: the transition to vocational training, the transition out of a religious school, and the transition to work at war-time.
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