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Rosvall, Per-Åke – Ethnography and Education, 2015
Previous research presented in this journal and elsewhere has suggested that vocational education is highly gender segregated and it is the heavy industrial sectors such as industry, vehicle and construction programmes that mainly attract boys with an anti-school attitude who are not interested in academic school work. However, there are good…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Stereotypes, Vocational Education, Working Class
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Niemi, Anna-Maija; Rosvall, Per-Åke – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2013
Research material from ethnographic studies of vocational upper secondary educational programmes in Finland and Sweden presented here indicates that the discourse of schoolwork as being either theoretical or practical is firmly fixed. However, the students on the researched programmes were aware of recent changes in the labour market that raise a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Males, Vocational Education