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Manuel Nicklich; Marco Blank; Sabine Pfeiffer – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2025
Context: The German vocational training and education (VET) system is designed to cope with change. Within this system, organizational VET trainers (OVETT) are the main persons of reference for apprentices in the organization, in most cases for the whole three-year training period. Whether training can help to realize or maintain decent work also…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career and Technical Education, College Students, Apprenticeships
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Harteis, Christian, Ed.; Gijbels, David, Ed.; Kyndt, Eva, Ed. – Professional and Practice-based Learning, 2022
The volume comprises a variety of research approaches that seek to explore and understand employees' learning and development through and for work. Working life reveals challenges through technological, economic and societal development that can only rudimentarily be addressed by formal education and training. Workplace learning becomes more and…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Employees, Professional Identity, Change
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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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Hetzner, Stefanie; Gartmeier, Martin; Heid, Helmut; Gruber, Hans – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyse employees' perception of a change at their workplaces and the requirements for learning, and factors supporting or inhibiting learning in the context of this change. Design/methodology/approach: Data collection included personal face-to-face semi-structured interviews with ten client advisors in the…
Descriptors: Banking, Content Analysis, Professional Development, Work Environment
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Dausien, Bettina; Schwendowius, Dorothee – European Journal of Education, 2009
The article summarizes the findings of a study on adult learning professions in Europe (ALPINE) commissioned by DG Education and Culture. It explores the current professional and social situation of staff in non-vocational adult education in Germany. It describes the structures and organisations of general adult education in Germany and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Interviews, Lifelong Learning
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Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2015
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Conference on Education and New Developments 2015-END 2015, taking place in Porto, Portugal, from 27 to 29 of June. Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the human being, in the way one thinks, feels and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Educational Change, Educational Trends