Characteristics of Workplace Learning Among Finnish Vocational Students
| Autor: | Anne Virtanen, Päivi Tynjälä, Kaija Collin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Cooperative learning
Engineering Medical education ammatillinen koulutus opiskelijat ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION business.industry Applied psychology Work experience Education ammatillinen peruskoulutus Workplace learning vocational students Vocational education Suomi työssäoppiminen Active learning ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION workplace learning The Internet Student learning business Finland Learning at work |
| Zdroj: | Vocations and Learning. 2:153-175 |
| ISSN: | 1874-7868 1874-785X |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s12186-009-9022-9 |
| Popis: | In Finnish VET, students’ work experience is explicitly defined as workplace learning, instead of the practice of already learnt skills. Therefore, vocational students’ learning periods in the workplace are goal-oriented, guided and assessed. This paper examines the characteristics of students’ workplace learning and compares them with the characteristics of employees’ workplace learning. The data were collected with an Internet questionnaire from final-year vocational students (N = 3106). In total, 1603 students (52 %) answered the questionnaire. The data were analysed using quantitative methods. The results indicate that features typical of employees’ workplace learning can also be found in student learning as well. However, VET-related workplace learning has a number of characteristics that have not been brought to light in research on employees’ workplace learning thus far. We suggest that in developing educational practices it would be useful to draw on some of the features of workplace learning such as the use of collaboration and shared practices; conversely for workplace practices it would be useful to draw on some of the features of educational practices. For example, by utilising the structures of students’ workplace learning system presented in this study, learning at work could be transformed towards more goal-directed, guided and assessed activity. peerReviewed |
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