Connections to research and professional practice are both essential components of engineering education, although handled differently across engineering programmes. The aim of this paper is to identify discourses on these components across three engineering programmes to in depth understand these variations. A discourse analysis was conducted on…

In vocational education, teaching and learning are expected to take place in the different learning arenas; schools and workplaces. In such a dual school system, the question of transfer is vital, i.e. how to use knowledge learned in previous situations in new situations. This article is an empirical contribution to research concerning transfer,…

The purpose of an inquiry was to study the feasibility, content, mediation, and results of the Swedish "Forests in Schools" (SIS) project, an example of a link between schools and working life (the latter represented by forest enterprise in general). It also sought to describe and, if possible, explain the effects of the activities…