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Asplund, Stig-Börje; Kilbrink, Nina; Asghari, Hamid – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2022
The importance of students developing the knowledge required to handle different tools and machines is specified in the curriculum of vocational education as well as emphasized in research. However, there are very few studies that focus on the learning processes that take place when teachers and students attend to tools and machines as a…
Descriptors: Machine Tools, Vocational Education, Workshops, Foreign Countries
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Berner, Boel – Vocations and Learning, 2009
The paper explores how novices in school-based vocational training make sense of computerized numerical control (CNC) machines. Based on two ethnographic studies in Swedish schools, one from the early 1980s and one from 2006, it analyses change and continuity in the cognitive, social, and emotional processes of learning how to become a machine…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Skilled Workers, Machine Tools