Formation and Psychology: The embodiment of a professional habitus of psychology students

What is the purpose of higher learning and the ideals of the university? What traits characterize the habitus of the profession that the students enter after completing their studies? Including such Bildung-perspectives (Gadamer) and profession-perspectives (Bourdieu) makes it possible to come to a deeper understanding of the challenges that Danish students of psychology are confronted with, and the possibility of processes of formation. Their direct influence on the study activities such as project work gives students a high level of motivation and involvement, and this is key to the embodiment of habitus as well as processes of formation: no commitment to the activity - no formation of a psychological and scientific habitus. And no personal involvement – no identification of one’s own standpoints and ideals.