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Broad, Janet Hamilton – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2016
The paper presents empirical data to consider some of the current debates concerning the nature of vocational knowledge taught in Further Education colleges to students following craft, vocational and occupational courses. The concept of "knowledge in motion" and workplace learning theories are employed as a conceptual framework to…
Descriptors: Vocational Education Teachers, Faculty Development, Workplace Learning, Learning Theories
Westerberg, Kristina; Hjelte, Jan – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2013
During a number of years Swedish municipalities have work with improvement of competence and long-term quality in elderly care. The overall aim of the present study was to compare different learning activities (workplace improvement and/or courses), and to relate these activities to learning climate, learning strategies, and perception of care…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Competence, Older Adults, Comparative Analysis
May, Tom – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2013
This article investigates whether the characteristics of feedback identified by the literature can be found within written assessment records for work and competence-based qualifications. It uses a brief literature review and analysis of the formative feedback within 257 learner portfolios. The characteristics identified by the literature are…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Qualifications, Competency Based Education
Mullin, Teresa – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2013
There is an assumption that e-learning is considered as a valued resource with great potential. This research explores how hairdressing apprentices experience vocational e-learning and makes recommendations on how good practice can be shared. An estimated 35,000 hairdressing and barber salons account for a quarter of a million UK workers and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Cosmetology, Apprenticeships
Safford, Kimberly; Cooper, Deborah; Wolfenden, Freda; Chitsulo, Joyce – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2013
Apprenticeship in developed and industrialised nations is increasingly understood and practised as learning which connects workplace activity and formal study. The concept of "expansive apprenticeship" defines frameworks for workforce development where participants acquire knowledge and skills which will help them in the future as well…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Females, Apprenticeships
Cavanagh, Jillian Maria – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2012
This study is about female auxiliary workers in the Australian legal sector. The purpose is to explore the impact of subjectivities on women workers and how they negotiate their positionality to participate in meaningful work and learning. The study is grounded in theories of identity and socio-cultural perspectives of subjectivity, agentic action…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employed Women, Self Concept, Ethnography
Poortman, Cindy Louise; Illeris, Knud; Nieuwenhuis, Loek – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2011
To meet the requirements of an increasingly innovative and competitive environment, workers need to continuously develop and maintain competence. Consequently, initial vocational education and training should prepare (future) workers by providing a basis for lifelong learning in developing both routine and flexible competence. The question is…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Learning Theories, Learning Strategies, Lifelong Learning
Lassnigg, Lorenz – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2011
This article analyses the structure and development of Austrian apprenticeship in the context of the country's wider vocational education and training (VET) system. In doing so, it draws on official data and survey results as well as the available, related literature on historical institutionalism. It begins with an analysis of the basic structure…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Educational Development
Filliettaz, Laurent – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2011
This article focuses on pedagogical aspects of initial vocational training in the context of the Swiss VET system. Even though apprentices are usually the responsibility of one main supervisor within companies, a number of other colleagues, experts and fellow apprentices interact with them as they engage in productive tasks. In that context, the…
Descriptors: Expertise, Work Experience, Vocational Education, Apprenticeships
Gibbs, Paul; Maguire, Kate – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2011
The idea that learning involves a kind of therapy goes back to ancient times: Socrates was, at least in part, concerned with a kind of care of the self, and Plato in his early dialogues presents learning as a cure for bad intellectual and moral habits. Our metaphoric use of therapy supposes that worthwhile learning might be considered as a…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Therapy, Moral Development, Ethical Instruction
Smith, Erica; Comyn, Paul; Brennan Kemmis, Ros; Smith, Andy – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2011
Traineeships are apprenticeship-like training arrangements that were initiated in Australia in 1985. They were designed to introduce apprenticeship training to a broader range of industries, occupations and individuals; they are available in occupations outside the traditional trades and crafts. Many companies use them on a large scale, some…
Descriptors: Industry, Apprenticeships, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education
James, Ian – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2010
This paper proposes 15 principles of educational intervention for developing vocationalised moral values for workplaces. The principles are drawn from a study of 14 construction workers in Queensland, Australia and draws from their understanding and perception of vocational moral development. The paper proposes these principles as a basis for…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries
Monks, Alan – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2010
Use was made of adapted problem-based learning (PBL) practical exercises to address the disengagement of apprentices with the existing assembly-style electronic laboratory programme. Apprentices perceived the traditional routines as having little real-world relevance. This detracted from the value and benefit to them of the practical component of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Research Methodology, Problem Based Learning, Learning Experience
Pankhurst, K. V. – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2010
This paper examines the nature and significance of learning by experience during work, both paid and unpaid. Data about the relationship between costs, especially labour costs, and output have come to be interpreted as evidence of learning by experience, but these grouped data are unable to explain the nature and process of individual experience…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Workplace Learning, Problem Solving, Costs