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Candido, Vito; Raemy, Patric; Amenduni, Francesca; Cattaneo, Alberto – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2023
Context: This study investigates the perspective of vocational educators on the possibility of adopting augmented reality (AR) and hypervideo (HV) technologies to support their teaching practice. Vocational education and training (VET) is particularly concerned with the learning of resources (knowledge, skills and attitudes) that are immediately…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Computer Simulation, Hypermedia, Video Technology
Lorenzo Bonoli; Philipp Gonon – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2023
Purpose: The years 1960-1970 were decisive years in the development of Swiss vocational education and training (VET). The post-World War II economic boom, technological innovations and the debate concerning equal opportunities and the democratisation of education put the VET system under pressure. Reforms were thus undertaken to increase the…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Educational History, Documentation
Lüthi, Fabienne; Stalder, Barbara E.; Elfering, Achim – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2021
Context: Providing learners with quality resources at work and school is a key element of apprenticeships and is essential for developing vocational competencies and successful vocational careers. Drawing on previous research on situational and personal resources, we first explored work-related and school-related resource profiles of apprentices'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Vocational Education, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
Hofmann, Claudia; Müller, Xenia; Krauss, Annette; Häfeli, Kurt – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2021
Context: There are currently two low-threshold vocational education and training (VET) options in Switzerland for young people at risk: A two-year programme for a Federal VET certificate and a practical training programme designed for young people with special needs. In the present study, we looked at transitions from these programmes to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Job Training, Education Work Relationship
Baumeler, Carmen; Engelage, Sonja; Strebel, Alexandra – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2021
Context: Dual VET systems are often praised for their labour market proximity because of economic stakeholders' involvement. However, when labour market requirements change rapidly, a lack of flexibility is attributed to them. This occurs in times of fast socio-technological change like the current digital transformation. A repeatedly proposed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Kim, Kevin Gonyop; Oertel, Catharine; Dillenbourg, Pierre – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2021
Context: Exploring the design space is an important process in a design task. In this study, we considered design space exploration for the learners in vocational education and training (VET). The goal of the study was to investigate how they explore the design space while focusing on the effect of a graph-like interface on the learner's…
Descriptors: Floriculture, Apprenticeships, Vocational Education, Courseware
Bürgi, Regula; Gonon, Philipp – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2021
Context: International scholarship and policy tend to depict national structures governing Vocational Education and Training (VET) as uniform and devoid of internal differences. This macro perspective neglects the numerous processes at the meso and micro level that shape the structure and content of VET. This article focusses on professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Governance, Professional Associations
Gessler, Michael; Nägele, Christof; Stalder, Barbara E. – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2021
Context: The research field at the boundary between learning and working is multidimensional, fuzzy, dynamic, and characterized by high growth. A study that comprehensively maps and aggregates this research field is missing. Approach: Using tools of bibliometric analysis (bibliographic coupling, co-citation analysis and co-occurrence analysis), we…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Citation Analysis, Educational Research, Education Work Relationship
Schmid, Evi – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2020
Context: Vocational education and training (VET) plays a key role in reducing early leaving from education and training, and integrating youth at risk in upper secondary education. To ensure that more young people complete upper secondary education, the OECD suggests designing interventions that address the specific needs of youth at risk such as…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, At Risk Persons, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
Coppi, Alessia Eletta; Cattaneo, Alberto; Gurtner, Jean-Luc – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2019
Context: Discovering visual languages across professions is a complex task since it entails discovering a communication system composed of information in image or textual form called representations and also including various kinds of annotations such as notes. Such a task has been previously scarcely considered within research, and basically only…
Descriptors: Visual Learning, Visualization, Visual Aids, Occupations
Nagele, Christof; Neuenschwander, Markus P.; Rodcharoen, Patsawee – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2018
Context: Vocational education and training enables young people to quickly and effectively enter the labour market. To advance their careers and to develop their professional expertise even more, they must then further their education through higher vocational or higher academic education. In this study, we looked at young people at work: What…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Academic Education, Higher Education
Neuenschwander, Markus P.; Hofmann, Jan; Jüttler, Andreas; Schumann, Stephan – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2018
Context: Following the social cognitive career theory of Lent, Brown, and Hackett (1994), the current study examines the effect of role models' professions and practical internship experiences on the choice of professional environment independent of professional interests. Embedded in the Swiss context with its strong vocational training system,…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Decision Making, Role Models, Internship Programs
Leemann, Regula Julia; Imdorf, Christian – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2015
In training networks, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises pool their resources to train apprentices within the framework of the dual VET system, while an intermediary organisation is tasked with managing operations. Over the course of their apprenticeship, the apprentices switch from one training company to another on a (half-) yearly…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Cooperative Education, Networks, Apprenticeships