Search results for "Vocationa"

Field-Specific Educational Practices as a Source for Students' Vocational Identity Formation

2008

Although work-related identity research has undergone considerable expansion in recent years, vocational identity among students remains a neglected area. However, initial vocational education plays a crucial role in the process of lifelong learning. Accordingly, this chapter discusses students' vocational identity formation during their vocational education and training. As recent findings on vocational or professional identity emphasise its context-based or sociocultural construction, [the authors] examined students' vocational identity formation in two different fields: one) technology and transport, and two) social services and health care. [The authors'] quantitative data indicate that…

Does vocationally oriented foreign language teaching meet the needs of Finnish and German vocational school students?

2019

This article is based on upper secondary vocational school students’ interviews made in Finland and in Germany in 2016 and in 2017. The study results suggest that in both countries, English language skills are seen as the most important foreign language skills and the students would like to have more vocationally oriented English language classes with focus on authentic spoken language communication. The differences in the educational systems of the two countries might result in differences in students‘ perceptions of whether and to what extent they will actually need foreign languages in their future working life. nonPeerReviewed

The influence of project-based Learning on nursing students' core competencies : a case study in China

2017

Gong, Ran. 2017. The Influence of Project-based Learning on Nursing Students’ Core Competencies: A case study in China. Master's Thesis in Education. University of Jyväskylä. Department of Education. Vocational education provides students practical skills which will be beneficial for their future career. Project-based learning (PBL), as an instructional approach,was introduced into China’s vocational education in 2000. Seven core competencies were defined in Competency Inventory for Registered Nurse (CIRN) and are applied to monitor the standard of nurses. This study aims to reveal how PBL influences nursing students’ core competencies and to discuss the implementation and future improvemen…

Pedagoginen asiantuntijuus liikkeessä -hankkeen tulokset

2013

Qualitative study of social and healthcare educators’ perceptions of their competence in education

2019

Competent educators are needed to ensure that social and healthcare professionals are effective and highly competent. However, there is too little evidence‐based knowledge of current and required enhancements of educators' competences in this field. The aim of this study was to describe social and healthcare educators’ perceptions of their competence in education. The study had a qualitative design, based on interviews with educators and rooted in critical realism. Forty‐eight participants were recruited from seven universities of applied sciences and two vocational colleges in Finland, with the assistance of contact persons nominated by the institutions. The inclusion criterion for partici…

Between school and working life: Vocational teachers agency in boundary-crossing settings

2009

This paper investigates agency among vocational teachers with reference to boundary-crossing between school and working life. Our study utilised interviews with sixteen Finnish vocational teachers. Adopting a narrative analysis approach, we found that the teachers had a variety of forms of exercising agency in terms of decisions deliberately taken, and the discourse and actions following these decisions. These forms were: (i) restricted agency, (ii) extensive agency, (iii) multifaceted balancing agency, (iv) situationally diverse agency, and (v) relationally emergent agency. The exercising of agency was intertwined with the main resources and constraints emerging from the teachers’ sense of…

What Can Research on Technology for Learning in Vocational Educational Training Teach Media Didactics?

2013

Information technology is essential in modern societies; this also applies for educational institutions, as they reflect society’s (schooling) values and intentions. Learners are influenced by the use of technology; even if information technology is not always consciously or intentionally applied, it is literally an actual part of everyday life.

Desarrollo de la carrera emprendedora: Identificación de perfiles, competencias y necesidades

2020

En el marco específico de la formación y orientación profesional de jóvenes y adultos, se considera el emprendimiento como una transición posible que acontece en la trayectoria profesional/laboral de las personas (en crecimiento ante la estructural precarización laboral), con lo que ello implica para la construcción y reorientación de proyectos profesionales-vitales. El objetivo de este artículo es analizar las motivaciones y los condicionantes de carrera que tienen las personas que desarrollan una actividad emprendedora, identificando perfiles y necesidades sobre el modo en que articulan sus diversos roles vitales-profesionales. Para ello se realiza un estudio tipo encuesta, diseñando y ap…

Adaptive Vocational Personality Questionnaire Development and Validation of an adaptive personality questionnaire to analyze the vocational behavior …

2013

This study presents a personality evaluation instrument adapted to the vocational setting: the Adaptive Vocational Personality Questionnaire (AVPQ). The questionnaire was developed and tested in a sample of 2160 university students in the final years of their degree programs. The purpose of the study is to validate the questionnaire, providing evidence about its internal structure and its usefulness for predicting scores on a criterion scale. A confirmatory factor analysis combined with a cross-validation design was used: the exploratory sample (n = 879) helped to identify the model with the factorial structure that best fit the relations among the items. As expected, this model had two rel…

Concepciones de planificación en la formación profesional para el empleo : la importancia de la experiencia profesional

2021

Este artículo presenta los resultados de una investigación que pertenece al grupo de estudios sobre el conocimiento del profesorado. Tiene como objetivos explorar las concepciones de planificación del profesorado y del personal gestor de la formación profesional para el empleo y analizar similitudes y divergencias entre las mismas, puesto que ambos son agentes que participan en los procesos de planificación en esta formación. La metodología es de orientación cuantitativa basada en un método descriptivo. Se han analizado las concepciones de planificación a través de un cuestionario adaptado de Marrero (1988) y validado por personas expertas. Los resultados obtenidos muestran que no hay apena…