Search results for "vocation"

The link between vocational identity, study choice motivation and satisfaction with studies

2010

Abstract The study explores the link between student's vocational identity, motivation for their study choice, satisfaction with different aspects of studies and thoughts of leaving their studies. The following instruments were administered: 1) Questionnaire on satisfaction with different aspects of study process and student's future 2) My Vocational Situation (MVS, Holland, Daiger, Power, 1980); 3) Questionnaire of motivation for study choice. The study was conducted with 120 students at the Vidzeme's University of Applied Sciences in Latvia. The results show the correlation between the high level of student's vocational identity, intrinsic motivation for study choice and higher satisfacti…

La formación profesional en la construcción de trayectorias laborales. Estudio sobre sectores productivos en Argentina

2021

El artículo se ubica en el campo problemático entre educación y trabajo buscando caracterizar de manera específica la formación profesional —FP—. Para ello interesa analizar el lugar que ocupa este tipo de formación en las trayectorias laborales de los trabajadores. El texto parte de un estudio cualitativo —101 entrevistas entre directivos, profesores y alumnos— realizado en cuatro familias profesionales con alta demanda de formación en Argentina: electricidad, construcción, agroindustria y mecánica automotor. Se propone una mirada que permita recuperar el lugar que la FP ha tenido en diversas fases de los modelos de desarrollo económico colocando el énfasis sobre la formación profesional d…

Learning by Working

2022

Work placements can provide good opportunities for students to obtain meaningful learning and work experience. In Latvia, the quality of work placements varies and can lead to both excellent and dubious experience. The chapter aims at investigating how work placements can contribute to student development and how to organize work placements of high quality by exploring examples of good practice of organizing work placements in the companies in Latvia. The results indicate that the most important factor to ensure quality work placements is the interest and motivation of the companies which stems from their need for qualified workers, strategic goals, and sustainable working practices. Qualit…

Implications of the Modular Curriculum in the Senior Secondary School in Finland

2004

Interest in the modular curriculum has increased during the last few years. The modular approach has been seen as a promising curriculum model when more flexible structures are sought for reorganizing education. It creates alternatives for organizing school work in a pedagogically functional way in which individual students are offered more opportunities to select their own program of study (Warwick, 1988). Co-operation with schools has increased and forced schools to find common principles to arrange the timetables and daily schoolwork. In this context, the modular curriculum provides an instrument to outline the purpose and goals of schoolwork in a new way, and put them into practice at t…

Connecting Work and Learning in Industrial Design and Development

2008

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

2009

Abstract 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’…

Connecting Work and Learning Through Demonstrations of Vocational Skills – Experiences from the Finnish VET

2008

Pomiar wybranych kryteriów jakości informacji na stronach WWW – studium przypadku

2019

The paper presents the measurement of selected web indicators using the example of websites of the state higher vocational schools in Poland. The obtained indicators were used to assess specific criteria of information quality on websites. Based on the conducted study, it can be concluded that the web indicators can be used in the process of improving information quality on websites.

Education, training and the economy : preparing young people for a changing labour market

2006

Révocation du dirigeant : du fondement délictuel au fondement contractuel

2017

International audience; Note sous Cour d'appel de Paris (ch. 5-8), 18 octobre 2016, n° 15/18421, P. c/ SAS Foncia Groupe