Why returning to VET? Results of a qualitative comparative study about English and German car mechatronics.
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Educational choices, especially the influence of class on these choices have been a subject of lively international debate. However, thus far, there has been little international and comparative research with respect to vocational and education training (VET) decision making from a subject-oriented perspective. This paper considers occupational-biographical orientations of English and German car mechatronics and focuses on the roles of learning and gaining vocational qualifications. Drawing on the concept of occupational-biographical orientations, the paper describes three types of orientations based on analyses of findings from 11 autobiographical-narrative interviews with English and German car mechatronics. The interviews clearly showed that occupational-biographical orientations explained different views on the necessity of returning to (continuous) vocational education and training. They also demonstrated that subjective perceptions of the national VET system fostered particular occupational-biographical challenges, which supported or hindered existing learning attitudes. Overall, the findings suggested that occupational-biographical orientations exerted the most important influence on learning biographies and decisions to return to (continuous) VET. (DIPF/Orig.).
Schlagwörter
Empirische Untersuchung, Narratives Interview, Grounded Theory, Einstellung (Psy), Subjektivität, Wahrnehmung, Mechatronik, Berufsausbildung, Vergleichende Berufsbildungsforschung, Berufsbildungssystem, Berufsbiografie, Berufsorientierung, Weiterbildung, Lebenslanges Lernen, Einflussfaktor, Deutschland, England,
Quelle | In: International journal for research in vocational education and training, 4 (2017) 3, S. 206-225, URL des Volltextes: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0111-pedocs-151269; https://doi.org/10.13152/IJRVET.4.3.2; https://edudoc.ch/record/129637 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 2197-8646 |
URN |
urn:nbn:de:0111-pedocs-151269 |
DOI |
10.13152/IJRVET.4.3.2 |
Erfasst von | DIPF | Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main |
Update | 2018/2 |