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Stefanie Findeisen; Lukas Ramseier; Markus P. Neuenschwander – Vocations and Learning, 2024
In Switzerland, access to non-academic occupations requires the completion of a vocational education and training (VET) program. Over two-thirds of adolescents choose to start a dual VET program after compulsory education. However, this path from school to work is not always linear, and changes can be a means of adjusting wrong career choices. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Dual Enrollment, Education Work Relationship
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LeiB, Tamara Vanessa; Rausch, Andreas – Vocations and Learning, 2023
The present study examines the effects of social interactions' situational characteristics, emotions, and personality on self-perceived learning from social interactions at work based on diary and survey data. The sample comprises 43 German vocational education and training (VET) trainees in various apprenticeship programs. During the diary period…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Relationship, Psychological Patterns, Personality
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Hetzner, Stefanie; Gartmeier, Martin; Heid, Helmut; Gruber, Hans – Vocations and Learning, 2011
Reflection on events at work, including errors is often as a means to learn effectively through work. In a cross-sectional field study in the banking sector, we investigated attitudes towards workplace errors (i.e. error orientation) as predictors of reflective activity. We assumed the organisational climate for psychological safety to have a…
Descriptors: Banking, Finance Occupations, Employee Attitudes, Work Attitudes
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Gijbels, David; Raemdonck, Isabel; Vervecken, Dries – Vocations and Learning, 2010
Based on the Demand-Control-Support (DCS) model, the present paper aims to investigate the influence of job characteristics such as job demands, job control, social support at work and self-directed learning orientation on the work-related learning behaviour of workers. The present study was conducted in a centre for part-time vocational education…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Social Support Groups, Employees, Workplace Learning