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Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2016
Work-based learning is an educational strategy that offers students an opportunity to reinforce and deepen their classroom learning, explore future career fields and demonstrate their skills in an authentic setting. Managing work-based learning requires layers of coordination, which is typically done by an individual or organizational…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Workplace Learning, Vocational Education, Apprenticeships
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Fjellström, Magnus; Kristmansson, Per – Education & Training, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to compare, and identify both similarities and differences in, affordances for vocational learning in two contrasting education systems, for construction worker and shop salesperson apprentices, in Swedish contexts. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected through interviews and observations in two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Comparative Analysis, Affordances
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Messmann, Gerhard; Mulder, Regina H. – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2015
The aim of this study was to investigate how apprentices' learning activities at work can be fostered. This is a crucial issue as learning at work enhances apprentices' competence development and prepares them for professional development on the job. Therefore, we conducted a study with 70 apprentices in the German dual system and examined the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Learning Activities, Workplace Learning
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Garraway, James; Bronkhorst, Joseph; Wickham, Sharman – South African Journal of Education, 2015
Students studying Civil Engineering (CE) at the Further Education and Training (FET) colleges spend periods of time in the classroom and workshop as well as in the workplace during experiential learning. The overall purpose of education and training in the college sector is generally understood as preparing students for employability, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, College Programs, Delivery Systems, Intermode Differences