Vocational Teachers and Workplace Learning: Integrative, Complementary and Implicit Accounts of Boundary Crossing

Autor/in	Esmond, Bill
Titel	Vocational Teachers and Workplace Learning: Integrative, Complementary and Implicit Accounts of Boundary Crossing
Quelle	In: Studies in Continuing Education, 43 (2021) 2, S.156-173 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Esmond, Bill)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0158-037X
DOI	10.1080/0158037X.2020.1767564
Schlagwörter	Vocational Education Teachers; Teacher Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Comparative Education; Dual Enrollment; Job Training; Job Skills; Education Work Relationship; Workplace Learning; Germany; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausbilder; Lehrerverhalten; Ausland; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Doppelstudium; Berufsqualifizierender Bildungsgang; Produktive Fertigkeit; Deutschland
Abstract	Where young people's upper-secondary education spans work and institutional domains, questions arise about learning across both spheres and its guidance. Theoretical accounts of 'boundary crossing' have explored how vocational teachers can integrate learning across domains by drawing on extended concepts and theoretical knowledge to solve workplace problems; whilst empirical accounts have validated the role of vocational educators by describing the workplace and schools as equally valid, complementary spheres. Different understandings, described here as 'integrative', 'complementary' and 'implicit', appear to reflect different national patterns of vocational education. The paper reports a qualitative study conducted around two case studies, located in Germany and England, of the way vocational teachers' understandings of facilitating learning across domains are constructed. Vocational teachers working in Germany's 'dual training' claimed to provide advanced knowledge that they compared to practical work skills, reflecting 'implicit' or 'complementary' approaches to learning across domains. Teachers in England, where workplace learning elements are more unevenly developed and lack institutional foundations, nevertheless described colleges and workplaces as distinctive, little-connected spheres. These differences suggest that teachers' approaches are less shaped by the potential or necessity for 'integrative' approaches than by the way different systems enable or constrain their conceptualisation of 'possible futures'. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01