Mellan yrkes- och bildningsideal : Att vara lärare på polisutbildningen

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study is to investigate how teachers with different educational and subject backgrounds co-exist within the same framework of the same education. Previous research suggests that this teacher composition should lead to conflict. But it does not provide any explanations as to how these conflicts are expressed or managed. To illustrate how potential conflicts are expressed or managed, 12 teachers from various Swedish police educations have been interviewed. The theoretical basis is a merging between institutional logics and inhabitant institutions, as a way to direct analytical focus to what happens on the micro level, between the teachers in their daily work. This analytical level has often been neglected in previous research, and this study is a way to contribute to the research about academic drift. The results show that police education is populated by teachers whom we can understand as carriers of different logics. Two logics emerged as particularly contrasting, which I chose to name police logic and academy logic. This means that the teachers was carriers of different ideologically colored norm structures. The results also indicated that the police students were carriers of the police logic. Despite this, I saw no clear traces of conflict. One explanation for this was that teachers' interaction patterns were limited by the organization of the education. One consequence of this was that the teachers with different educations and subject matter rarely met, and conflicts were avoided. In the concrete teaching situation, the two logics met and the teachers needed to find some form of co-existence, especially in relation to the police students. Using Erving Goffman´s concept of cooling out, I found three different cooling out strategies that the teachers used. A central result was that the logics were superior to the teachers. The important thing for the students was not who taught, but what was taught, and that the teaching contents, in the students’ view, had clear professional relevance.