Ubergange in der Okologie der Infrastruktur ,betreuter Kindheit'

Abstract

Currently, transition research often has a narrow scope irrespective of its institutional and organizational theory. This implies an instrumental understanding of transitions, in which mainly phrases like "transition management", "transition counselling", "cooperation" or "educational partnership" occur. Transition is thus reduced to a matching between organizational entities. As a result, the organizational work of producing transitions within the infrastructure of 'cared-for childhood' (Honig, 2011) and the associated pedagogical and social implications are rarely considered. Within this context, this paper proposes to theoretically conceptualize transitions in an updated socio-ecological perspective as boundary objects of infrastructures and thus as phenomena that are relationally produced and processed. The field of all-day child care is used as an example. © 2022 Verlag Julius Beltz GmbH. All rights reserved.