WORK-BASED LEARNING INVOLVING THE DUAL EDUCATION ELEMENTS

Abstract

The article analyses the dual education capacity for implementing work-based learning (WBL) for future skilled workers in order to improve the quality and enhance their professional training practice orientation. It is emphasised on information accumulating in the national scientific-pedagogical dimension on dual education elements introducing into future skilled workers professional training. Therefore, the appropriate issues on relevance, expediency, perspective and necessity are actively studied. It is noted that dual education applying is to create real production situations, assure cooperation of students and experienced mentors from enterprises, and demonstrate students’ autonomy and initiative in the workplace. It also represents the students’ involvement into professional culture and their professional identity, recruitment possibility for the youth of appropriate qualification, strengthening the practical component of professional (vocational) education (P(V)E) system, etc. It provides characteristics for WBL activities and its main forms: work experience, traineeship, work-shadowing, mentoring, apprenticeship, cooperative learning, partnership-based learning, internship or work placement.