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From Guiding Apprentices to Teaching Students: Fundamental Challenges in the Identity Transition from Occupational Practitioner to Vocational Educator
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Sarastuen, Nora Kolkin – Vocations and Learning, 2020
The transition from occupational practitioner to vocational educator means moving from the logic of production to the logic of teaching; the purpose of knowledge changes from enhancing production to enhancing learning. This process touches issues of transmitting vocational knowledge from a workplace context to a school context; it has been…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Vocational Education Teachers, Professional Identity, Vocational Adjustment
Effects of Perceived In-Company Trainers' Ethos on Apprentices' Vocational and Organizational Identification: An Empirical Study with Cook and Automotive Apprentices
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Forster-Heinzer, Sarah – Vocations and Learning, 2020
The aim of this paper is to clarify the relationship between the pedagogical ethos of vocational in-company trainers as perceived by apprentices and the apprentices' identification with their vocation and their company from both a theoretical and an empirical point of view. It is argued that the trainers' pedagogical ethos is a relational…
Descriptors: Trainers, Apprenticeships, Professional Identity, Identification (Psychology)
Finnish Apprenticeship Training Stakeholders' Perceptions of Vocational Expertise and Experiences of Workplace Learning and Guidance
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Pylväs, Laura; Nokelainen, Petri; Rintala, Heta – Vocations and Learning, 2018
This study examines Finnish apprenticeship training stakeholders' perceptions of vocational expertise and experiences of workplace learning and guidance. The semi-structured interview data was collected in 2015 in two vocational fields: the social and health care services sector (five workplaces) and the technology sector (five workplaces). The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Stakeholders, Vocational Education