{"title":"Elevers formande av arbetsplatsförlagt lärande i svensk gymnasial lärlingsutbildning","authors":"Ingela Andersson, Viveca Lindberg","doi":"10.3384/njvet.2242-458x.221211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3384/njvet.2242-458x.221211","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The article examines how students in Swedish upper secondary apprenticeship education contribute to the shaping of their education through their choices and actions in relation to work-based learning. Activity theory and the notion of interacting activity systems was used to emphasise the students’ perspective as active subjects. Data was collected through observations and interviews with 15 students in their second year of an apprenticeship. An initial qualitative content analysis revealed a pattern of actions that related to both school and work. The result of this analysis was further elaborated with activity theoretical concepts. Thereby dominating rules/norms and tools they made use of, contributed to identifying three potential objects for students’ actions: grades in vocational subjects, development of vocational skills, and inclusion in the workplace community. Depending on what objects the students held as superior and subordinate different outcomes could be achieved – an upper secondary vocational degree, development of vocational skills, and/or being employed while studying. One object did not necessarily exclude the others. It is concluded that the multiple expectations from students, school, and workplaces that coexist in relation to work-based learning need to be continuously communicated among all participants to strengthen the students’ possibility to achieve their desired educational outcome.\u0000","PeriodicalId":410150,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Vocational Education and Training","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116144068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"For a real job? Views on the teaching of competence in working life by students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)","authors":"M. Mäkinen","doi":"10.3384/njvet.2242-458x.2111366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3384/njvet.2242-458x.2111366","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, twelve young students on the autism spectrum were interviewed on preparation for working life, employment guidance, the challenges and strengths of the autism spectrum, and suitable teaching methods. Interviews were supported by a structured and illustrated questionnaire. The data were analysed using key statistics. The results showed that, from the students’ perspective, the most important issues in preparation for work are familiarisation with different jobs, guidance in searching for a suitable job, evaluation of the suitability of the working environment, integration of occupational safety into work skills, and acquiring conversational skills in the workplace. The selection of a suitable working environment is clearly emphasised before transitioning to work. Acquiring and keeping a job require investing in social situations and skills in studying. The structuring should be flexible and adaptable according to situations and personal needs. Educationally, social interaction, social skills, and communication should form a coherent whole. The main goal for everyday life ought to be communicative and based on a structure for acquiring different skills. The results can be utilised in a vocational education and training (VET) context, because they support the importance of preparatory education as part of these studies. In addition, the results can also be used in on-the-job learning plans for VET.","PeriodicalId":410150,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Vocational Education and Training","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129303322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How schools contribute to keeping students on track: Narratives from vulnerable students in vocational education and training","authors":"Evi Schmid, Beate Jørstad, Gøril Stokke Nordlie","doi":"10.3384/njvet.2242-458x.2111347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3384/njvet.2242-458x.2111347","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines characteristics, practices and conditions within schools that enable vulnerable students to succeed in school. Research suggests that factors related to structure, educational organisation or the climate within schools may play a part in either pushing out or holding on to students whose personal characteristics may put them at risk of dropping out. The study is based on 25 qualitative interviews with students in the second year of vocational education and training. All the students had a low grade point average from lower secondary school, and the majority had an immigrant background from Africa or Asia. The analysis shows that practice-oriented learning from authentic work tasks provided meaningful connections between schoolwork and students’ career choices and opportunities to experience success and mastery. Furthermore, positive expectations and the active support of teachers as well as mutual motivation and support among classmates contributed to students’ sense of belonging at school. The study discusses the importance of schools supporting less school-oriented young people in connecting and identifying with school, both with the social environment and with the educational content and learning methods.","PeriodicalId":410150,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Vocational Education and Training","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126076170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ligga steget före: Barnskötares yrkesomdöme åskådliggjort genom bedömningshandlingar","authors":"Enni Paul, C. Gåfvels","doi":"10.3384/njvet.2242-458x.2111322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3384/njvet.2242-458x.2111322","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores vocational judgement, which is discernible in the assessment actions of a supervising childminder directed towards upper secondary school students – while interacting with the children – during work-based learning in Sweden. The research aims to identify the characteristics of vocational knowing in terms of judgement, as exhibited in everyday interactions with children, by applying multimodal interaction ana-lysis to two video sequences from different Swedish preschools. The study findings show how vocational judgement – in the form of embodied discernment – is a central aspect of a childminder’s vocational knowing. Vocational judgement becomes discernible, for instance, in how supervising childminders are consistently one or several steps ahead of both children and upper secondary school students","PeriodicalId":410150,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Vocational Education and Training","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129641335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Per Andersson, S. Ahn, Hedvig Skonhoft Johannesen, Johanna Köpsén, A. Louw
{"title":"Editorial: New insights in vocational education and training","authors":"Per Andersson, S. Ahn, Hedvig Skonhoft Johannesen, Johanna Köpsén, A. Louw","doi":"10.3384/njvet.2242-458x.21112iii","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3384/njvet.2242-458x.21112iii","url":null,"abstract":"This is the second issue of the Nordic Journal of Vocational Education and Training in 2021. In this issue we present six articles – five peer-reviewed research articles and one magazine article, representing three of our Nordic countries. Three of the articles are contributions from Norway, two from Denmark and one from Sweden. In our journal we want to provide new insights and discussions on different aspects of vocational and professional education and training. The present contributions cover topics that particularly concern the vocational education and training (VET) teacher, such as the teacher’s role, teacher education, professional development, and collaboration. For example, two studies from health care education discuss the teacher’s role in VET for adults, with many immigrant students and where communication and language become central, and the teachers’ experience of a ‘career paradox’ among students – that is, how many students are focused on further studies rather than a future in health care work.","PeriodicalId":410150,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Vocational Education and Training","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126646175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lærerrollen der blev væk: Opbygningen af et transformativt lærerideal","authors":"Tobias Kidde Skov","doi":"10.3384/njvet.2242-458x.21112117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3384/njvet.2242-458x.21112117","url":null,"abstract":"This article raises the question if the role of the vocational teachers needs another teacher’s ideal. The foundation of the article is a rising tendency to describe the teacher’s role by other means than being a teacher and making the role of the teacher a matter of bringing students safely and easily to a learning outcome, through a teaching task described as both a supervisor, facilitator, motivator, and consultant. \u0000The article commences by explaining the tendency to understand the vocational teacher by others means than a teacher. Through analysis of ideas from Gert Biesta, Hartmut Rosa and Andrea English, the article will point to a transformative teaching ideal as a way of understanding the role of the vocational teacher, and at the same time try to exemplify this teacher ideal through different types of vocational education. The article will conclude by arguing that a transformative understanding of the teacher’s role can be seen as a more embracing ideal as opposed to the current trend of constructivism, and at the same time as an ideal, that gives back the original teaching task to the teacher.","PeriodicalId":410150,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Vocational Education and Training","volume":"147 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126912210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Samarbeid og lærerprofesjonalitet","authors":"Stein Rafoss, Hilde Witsø","doi":"10.3384/njvet.2242-458x.2111268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3384/njvet.2242-458x.2111268","url":null,"abstract":"This article is about the importance of collaboration in the development of teacher professionalism, and we have asked the research question: How can group collaboration between vocational education and training (VET) students contribute to the development of their teacher professionalism? The data basis is interviews with ten VET students in practical pedagogical education for vocational teachers that we conducted in the winter of 2020. In addition, we studied all internship documents that the ten students produced during the internship period. The students are in practical training at their own school with their own students and collaborate with each other to strengthen their own teacher role. We have applied Dale’s (1989, 1993, 2001) theory of teacher professionalism. To analyse collaboration, we used the theories of Hegel (1999), Honneth (2008, 2009), Barth (1994) and De Hei et al. (2018). We found that this internship made it possible for students to talk and reflect on didactic questions related to Dale’s three areas of expertise.","PeriodicalId":410150,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Vocational Education and Training","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126512693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Per O. Andersson, S. Ahn, Hedvig Skonhoft Johannesen, A. Louw
{"title":"Editorial: Online journal – online conference","authors":"Per O. Andersson, S. Ahn, Hedvig Skonhoft Johannesen, A. Louw","doi":"10.3384/njvet.2242-458x.21111iii","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3384/njvet.2242-458x.21111iii","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":410150,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Vocational Education and Training","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130728495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"One size fits nobody: En casestudie av yrkesfaglæreres deltakelse i kompetanse-utviklingsarbeid i videregående skole","authors":"J. Leonardsen","doi":"10.3384/njvet.2242-458x.211121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3384/njvet.2242-458x.211121","url":null,"abstract":"Vocational education and training (VET) teachers have a dual profession as teachers and vocational workers. Professional development projects in school must apply to both sides of their profession. However, VET teachers’ need for professional development, particularly in terms of student assessment, has not been significantly explored. This ethnographic case study examines what aspects of professional development projects VET teachers perceive as meaningful for developing their assessment literacy. Data was collected through observations of 31 VET teachers in two upper secondary schools, in the context of a professional development project aiming to strengthen assessment literacy. Eighteen of these teachers also participated in focus group interviews. Findings show that if VET teachers are to find professional development projects in school meaningful for developing their assessment literacy, the projects must 1) have vocational relevance, 2) maintain a vocational perspective on the validity of assessment of students’ vocational competence, and 3) take place in a learning and development-oriented culture. Unfortunately, professional development projects do not address teachers’ developmental needs due to tensions among professional, socio-cultural and organisational contexts in school and vocational workplaces. ","PeriodicalId":410150,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Vocational Education and Training","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130488687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Yrkesfaglærerens paradoks: Utdanne til fagarbeid eller videre studier?","authors":"Else Marie Johansen","doi":"10.3384/njvet.2242-458x.2112146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3384/njvet.2242-458x.2112146","url":null,"abstract":"This article refers to the vocational teachers’ reflections from experiences with students on the upper-secondary level health-care worker studies in Norway, who have a different purpose and basis for their education than to train as health-care workers. \u0000The study is based on six group interviews with 15 vocational teachers at health-care worker studies and draws attention to the experiences and assessments that the teacher makes in educating health-care students. Knowledge of motivation, self-efficacy, and community of practice form the theoretical foundation for the study. \u0000The results show that it is a complex group of students the teachers present in their reflections. Among other things, the teachers describe students who to a large extent do not know what they want with the education, as well as students who during the school year encounter practice and become insecure about their educational choices. The teachers therefore tend to facilitate a somewhat more general presentation of the subject, in order to embrace all the students’ different bases and goals of the education. At the same time, teachers clearly stated that they set clear academic requirements for the students and requirements for active participation, but if the academic focus is general and not specifically aimed for the health-care worker, it may strengthen the understanding that the profession is less important.","PeriodicalId":410150,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Vocational Education and Training","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131997964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}