Download full text
(477.9Kb)
Citation Suggestion
Please use the following Persistent Identifier (PID) to cite this document:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-55239-0
Exports for your reference manager
Enhancing Social Competence for Disadvantaged Youth in Pre-Vocational Education: Model Development Through Design-Based Research
[journal article]
Abstract
This study investigates the enhancement of social competence for disadvantaged young people based on the example of the "Werkschule Bremen" educational course. Theoretical approaches to social competence as a learning outcome are mainly based on the model of social information processing, although t... view more
This study investigates the enhancement of social competence for disadvantaged young people based on the example of the "Werkschule Bremen" educational course. Theoretical approaches to social competence as a learning outcome are mainly based on the model of social information processing, although the meaning of both practical and experience-oriented approaches is constantly evolving. Taking the specific contextual conditions into account, this study combines qualitative and quantitative methods within the design-based research methodology in order to determine how a location-independent didactical concept to enhance social competence could be created as well as which comparable impacts on the participants' social competence can be verified. The results show that a basic didactical concept is feasible, while the teaching and learning environment has a huge impact on the comparability. It is also clear that the students' motivation to participate depends on both their own and their teachers' interest as well as the teachers' capacity to facilitate safe relationships. As a core result, this study delivers a didactic model that is based on target-controlled experience-oriented learning environments on the practical side and the social information processing approach on the theoretical side.... view less
Keywords
school; vocational preparation; vocational guidance; adolescent; promotion of disadvantaged persons; social competence; didactics; teacher-pupil relationship; learning; motivation; learning environment; Bremen; Federal Republic of Germany
Classification
Special Types of Education/Schools
Method
empirical; qualitative empirical; quantitative empirical
Free Keywords
VET; Vocational Education and Training; Pre-Vocational Education; Design-based Research; Werkschule
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
Page/Pages
p. 346-368
Journal
International journal for research in vocational education and training, 4 (2017) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.13152/IJRVET.4.4.3
ISSN
2197-8646
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0