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Marit Lensjø – Vocations and Learning, 2025
This narrative study followed 11 vocational teachers in the Building and Construction program and examined factors that influenced their transition from the construction site to upper secondary school. The recruitment path for most technical vocational teachers means moving directly from the construction site to the school, where they begin work…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Vocational Education Teachers, Trade and Industrial Education, Construction Industry
Ilmari J. A. Puhakka; Markku Niemivirta; Liisa Postareff; Petri Nokelainen – Vocations and Learning, 2025
This study uses a person-centered approach to investigate construction workers' learning at work, focusing on their approaches to learning, self-efficacy beliefs and work engagement and how these vary according to their goal orientation profiles. Survey data were collected from Finnish construction sector employees (N = 1,280) in June 2021. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Construction Industry, Building Trades, Skilled Workers
Marit Lensjø – Vocations and Learning, 2024
Vocational teachers in building and construction in upper secondary school deal with complex situations of an organisational, vocational, and social kind. Recent research has shown that the teacher is the single most important factor for students' learning in school. Teacher-student relationships and the teacher's repertoire of teaching practices…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Construction Programs
Saló i Nevado, Laia; Pehkonen, Leila – Vocations and Learning, 2018
This study explored what kind of mathematics is needed in cabinetmakers' everyday work and how problem solving is intertwined in it. The informants of the study were four Finnish cabinetmakers and the data consisted of workshop observations, interviews, photos, pictures and sketches made by the participants during the interviews. The data was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Woodworking, Mathematics Skills, Problem Solving
Duemmler, Kerstin; Caprani, Isabelle; Felder, Alexandra – Vocations and Learning, 2020
Occupational prestige, the hierarchical perception of occupations, is a neglected issue in studies on vocational education and training, although the attractiveness of apprenticeship programs is strongly affected by their prestige. Based on a qualitative study, this article examines the identity strategies of apprentices whose training programs…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reputation, Masonry, Automation
Tyson, Ruhi – Vocations and Learning, 2015
The focus of this article is on education for vocational excellence (the combination of virtue and good judgment or phronesis/practical wisdom) through an examination of episodes from the auto/biographical study of master craftsman Wolfgang B. Vocational excellence is an issue sometimes discussed with regard to teacher training for schools and…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Handicrafts, Skilled Workers, Apprenticeships
Chan, Selena – Vocations and Learning, 2014
The term craftsmanship is associated with pre-industrial craft work with inferences to skilled artisanal manufacture of bespoke products. Apprenticeship learning is often perceived to be synonymous with learning craftsmanship. How then is the trait of craftsmanship through attainment of specific artisanal approaches conveyed and learnt through…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Skilled Workers, Professional Identity
Tyson, Ruhi – Vocations and Learning, 2014
In the present article I will be discussing the importance attributed to aesthetic experiences in the vocational education of bookbinding master Wolfgang B. using the philosophy of Friedrich Schiller both to understand what constitutes these processes and to examine Schiller's thoughts in the light of his recollections. By doing this I hope…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Aesthetics, Skilled Workers, Books
Vaughan, Karen; Kear, Andrew; MacKenzie, Heath – Vocations and Learning, 2014
This article examines a critical incident during research investigating a new assessment system for on-job learning in carpentry. The system was designed to establish clear relationships between supportive learning environments and purposeful, professional assessment of learners' progress through "naturally occurring evidence" on…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Vocational Evaluation, Skilled Workers, Woodworking
Learning Control: Sense-Making, CNC Machines, and Changes in Vocational Training for Industrial Work
Berner, Boel – Vocations and Learning, 2009
The paper explores how novices in school-based vocational training make sense of computerized numerical control (CNC) machines. Based on two ethnographic studies in Swedish schools, one from the early 1980s and one from 2006, it analyses change and continuity in the cognitive, social, and emotional processes of learning how to become a machine…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Skilled Workers, Machine Tools