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Evi Schmid; Gøril Stokke Nordlie; Beate Jørstad – Vocations and Learning, 2024
In many countries with apprenticeship-based vocational education and training (VET), dropout from apprenticeship training is a major concern. Leaving an apprenticeship early can be problematic, particularly for young people who do not continue their training at another company or in another occupation, and drop out of the education system without…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Work Environment, Vocational Education, Apprenticeships
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Stephen Billett; Ashlea Troth; Hongmin Yan – Vocations and Learning, 2024
Elaborating the relations amongst workers' learning, innovations and well-being is essential for achieving two important and dual goals in contemporary work life. The first is individuals' ongoing learning that underpins their employability and can respond to new challenges and emerging occupational and workplace requirements. The second comprises…
Descriptors: Labor Education, Well Being, Innovation, Adult Learning
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Ellen Daniëls; Katrien Cuyvers; Vincent Donche – Vocations and Learning, 2024
Learning in the workplace supports physicians in developing competences to ensure quality medical care. As such, learning in the workplace is essential for physicians' life-long professional development. Notwithstanding its importance, research on physicians' learning in the workplace and the corresponding motivational drivers is limited. In this…
Descriptors: Physicians, Professional Development, Work Environment, Medical Education
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Marlies E. De Vos; Liesbeth K. J. Baartman; Cees P. M. Van der Vleuten; Elly De Bruijn – Vocations and Learning, 2024
One aim of vocational education is educating students for occupations by fostering the development of students' capacities to become successful practitioners. During their education students are usually afforded work experience. When this is the case, students learn both at school and at the workplace. Learning at the workplace requires…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Vocational Education, Work Experience Programs, Capacity Building
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Stefanie Findeisen; Lukas Ramseier; Markus P. Neuenschwander – Vocations and Learning, 2024
In Switzerland, access to non-academic occupations requires the completion of a vocational education and training (VET) program. Over two-thirds of adolescents choose to start a dual VET program after compulsory education. However, this path from school to work is not always linear, and changes can be a means of adjusting wrong career choices. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Dual Enrollment, Education Work Relationship
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Cassandra Poikela; Ola Lindberg; Ulrika Haake; Oscar Rantatalo; Alva Lindholm – Vocations and Learning, 2025
In this study, we examine the conditions for participation in criminal investigation practices among two professional categories: police officers and civilians. Specifically, we analyse how participation is shaped and conditioned through the use of symbols and symbolic actions in relation to doing gender and professional identity. The Swedish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Police, Law Enforcement, Gender Issues