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Weber, Kirsten – Frontiers of Education in China, 2010
This paper deals with the professionalization of human service work. It analyses learning processes and identity development in the emerging profession of child care with concrete examples from empirical research, based on a life history approach. It discusses examples of careers mainly based on students' life experience, pointing out that their…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Biographies, Child Care, Self Concept
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Volman, Monique; Dam, Geert ten – British Educational Research Journal, 2007
This article discusses the way in which social identities structure the learning processes of students in two subjects in the Dutch secondary school curriculum--Care and Technology. It analyses interviews with 23 students and their teachers with a view to explaining the disappointing results in these subjects in terms of breaking through gender…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Secondary School Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Technology Education