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Direct linkChristensen, Bjarne – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2019
Purpose: This paper aims to explore how an academic graduate from the cross field between the humanities and the social sciences and blue-collar workers learns to scaffold knowing in a small- to medium-sized enterprise (SME). Design/methodology/approach: A case study was conducted in an SME that employed the first academic graduate among the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Small Businesses, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Humanities
"Employers Could Use Us, but They Don't": Voices from Blue-Collar Workplaces in a Northern Periphery
Holm, Anna-Elisabeth; O'Rourke, Bernadette; Danson, Mike – Language Policy, 2020
This article analyses labour market experiences of migrants of non-Nordic origin who have settled in the Faroe Islands, a small North Atlantic archipelago with a population of about 51,000 people. By examining the experiences of educated migrant workers who are employed in three different blue-collar workplaces: a cleaning company and two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Blue Collar Occupations, Second Language Learning
Servant-Miklos, Virginie F. C.; Dewar, Eleanor F. A.; Bøgelund, Pia – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2021
Many blue-collar jobs, most of which are performed by men, are likely to be displaced by automation. These workers will, therefore, need to be retrained and reskilled, many of them choosing for engineering education as mature students. This paper uses Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis to draw a complex portrait of the experience of…
Descriptors: Blue Collar Occupations, Working Class, Adults, Males
