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Forster-Heinzer, Sarah – Vocations and Learning, 2020
The aim of this paper is to clarify the relationship between the pedagogical ethos of vocational in-company trainers as perceived by apprentices and the apprentices' identification with their vocation and their company from both a theoretical and an empirical point of view. It is argued that the trainers' pedagogical ethos is a relational…
Descriptors: Trainers, Apprenticeships, Professional Identity, Identification (Psychology)
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Negrini, Lucio; Forsblom, Lara; Gurtner, Jean-Luc; Schumann, Stephan – Vocations and Learning, 2016
The dominant organizational form of vocational education and training in Switzerland is the dual-track system, in which trainees sign an apprenticeship contract with a training company. Notably, 10% to 40% of those contracts are terminated prematurely each year, depending on region and occupational category, which is an important topic of concern…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Training, Educational Quality, Contract Training
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Bound, Helen; Lin, Magdalene – Vocations and Learning, 2013
In this paper, we explore the relationship between differing conceptualisations of competence, and the implications of these differences for the enacted workplace curriculum and its pedagogical epistemologies. We argue that when competence is understood as a set of stand-alone attributes that reside within an individual, it limits and over…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Competence, Workplace Learning, Case Studies