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Re-Contextualizing Vocational Didactics in Norwegian Vocational Education and Training
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Abstract This article explores teachers and trainers didactical practices in different contexts in Norwegian VET: schools and workplaces. With the introduction of e-resources and e-portfolios in VET, learners as well as teachers and trainers experience a more hybrid learning-arena, which claims for a re-cont... view more
This article explores teachers and trainers didactical practices in different contexts in Norwegian VET: schools and workplaces. With the introduction of e-resources and e-portfolios in VET, learners as well as teachers and trainers experience a more hybrid learning-arena, which claims for a re-contextualization of vocational didactics as well as re-defining roles and responsibilities of the actors. The article discuss new forms of boundary crossing, dealing with e-portfolios as boundary objects, increasing learner autonomy, transformative learning outcomes, interaction between actors and designing learning processes in hybrid learning-arenas. Vocational didactics as understood in a teacher-training context are challenged by more actors and new forms of interactivity with technological tools crossing sites. The study is based on a longitudinal study in a national project on quality assessment, interviews with teachers and trainers as well as apprenticeship training offices supported by documentary evidence from three trades: sales, plumbing and industrial mechanics.... view less
Keywords
vocational education; instructor; teacher; didactics; curriculum; part-time vocational school; job; vocational guidance; learning process; dual system; Norway
Classification
Vocational Training, Adult Education
Curriculum, Teaching, Didactics
Free Keywords
Hybrid Learning; Re-Contextualization; Boundary Crossing
Document language
English
Publication Year
2015
Page/Pages
p. 182-194
Journal
International journal for research in vocational education and training, 2 (2015) 3
ISSN
2197-8646
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works