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Publication Date: 2023-Apr
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The Professional Bodies of VET Teachers in the Context of Simulation-Based Training for Vocational Learning
Ahn, Song-ee; Nyström, Sofia
Vocations and Learning, v16 n1 p141-156 Apr 2023
It is argued that the use of high-fidelity simulators is educationally effective, since students are able to work more independently and can better control their learning. Therefore, simulations can be used as a teaching method to facilitate and ease teachers' work situations. This raises questions as to whether teachers' professional bodies are a bounded physicality, or whether we can understand teachers' professional bodies in practice in terms of enactments? This article analyses and discusses the enactment of VET teachers' professional bodies in the context of vocational and simulation-based training. The empirical material is based on ethnographic observations in three classes in two different vocational education programmes at two upper secondary schools in Sweden. Three different cases are presented and analysed as examples of how VET teachers' professional bodies are enacted. Guided by a practice theory perspective (Schatzki, T. R. Social practices: a Wittgensteinian approach to human activity and the social (1996), Schatzki, T. R. The site of the social: A philosophical account of the constitution of social life and change (2002), Schatzki, T. R. & Natter, W. Sociocultural bodies, bodies sociopolitical. In T. R.Schatzki & W. Natter (Eds.), The social and political body (1996), the study shows that VET teachers' professional bodies are enacted in multiples, distributed, and delegated in an interplay between the teachers, the students, the simulator, and its material set-up. In these enactments of professional bodies, VET teachers embody both a teacher identity and a previous vocational identity, which they perform simultaneously depending on the educational situation.
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Vocational Education Teachers, Simulation, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Teachers, Human Body, Foreign Countries, Teacher Student Relationship, Professional Identity
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Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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