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### 2. Isolation
Lortie's research in 1975 already concluded that teaching is marked by _privatism_: you do your thing, I do my thing - let's not interfere. You want me to use your tool? I'd rather not. Mine is better. I'm used to this one. Does this sound familiar? Cookson described it as:
Lortie's research in 1975 already concluded that teaching is marked by _privatism_: you do your thing, I do my thing - let's not interfere. You want me to use your tool? I'd rather not. Mine is better. I'm used to this one. Does this sound familiar?
Cookson described it teaching (in higher education) as:
> ...one of the most social occupations, but also one of the most isolating professions. <span>Cookson (2007)</span>
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### Collaboration?
I once spoke to [Wim Bollen](https://www.ductu.be/about) of Ductu about collaborating. "_Teamwork_", a fancy word that is likely to pop up in any business-related contemporary article, is something we loved to complain about when I worked as a software engineer. Working together is certainly challenging, but Wim identified interesting nuances in "collaboration": he called 90% of what everyone thinks is collaborating, _co-working_. You do this, I do that, and in the end, we'll throw stuff together. Done.
I once spoke to [Wim Bollen](https://www.ductu.be/about) of Ductu about collaborating. "_Teamwork_", a fancy word that is likely to pop up in any business-related contemporary article, is something we also loved to complain about in the industry, when I worked as a software engineer. Working together is certainly challenging, but Wim identified interesting nuances in "collaboration": he called 90% of what everyone thinks is collaborating, _co-working_. You do this, I do that, and in the end, we'll throw stuff together. Done.
This is exactly the well-employed strategy in the academic world when researchers (including myself) claim to have collaborated with someone. In Elseviers' [A brief guide to research collaboration for the young scholar](https://www.elsevier.com/connect/a-brief-guide-to-research-collaboration-for-the-young-scholar) (I wonder if 35 still counts as a young scholar?) presents a few synonyms: