Besozzi, Roberta and Lamamra, Nadia and Duc, Barbara (2015) On-the-job trainers: their trajectories and function within the current working context. The case of the French-speaking region of Switzerland. In: ECER Conference, Budapest. (Unpublished)
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In Switzerland, vocational education and training is the pathway most followed by young people after compulsory education (SEFRI, 2013). The majority engages in the dual VET system, in which companies play a central role. Indeed, the dual system combines periods of learning and work in school and work settings in companies. A consequence of the system is the strong tie relying the VET system and the labour market (Hanhart, 2006). This tie takes several forms: a practice-oriented VET system (Hoeckel, Field, & Grubb, 2009); a central position of the companies within the system (SEFRI, 2013); a close confrontation of the apprentices to the production needs and an education oriented to towards immediate “employability” (Masdonati, Lamamra, Gay-des-Combes, & De Puy, 2007). Although host companies play a decisive role in dual-track VET programmes at upper-secondary level, not much research has been done on them and in particular little is known about those who play a key role in the learning process: on-the-job trainers (Mulder, 2013; Baumeler, Lamamra & Schweri, 2014). This contribution based on a PhD thesis project has the purpose to fill this lack of information on these VET trainers in the research field. Indeed, this function is unknown, whether it be in Switzerland or in other western countries, knowing an important VET system. (Mulder, 2013). With a perspective in sociology of work, this contribution will focus on the professional and social pathways of on-the-job trainers in western Switzerland. The objective is to better understand who these persons are, why they engaged in this function and which pathways they followed. Even if the main focus in this contribution is on the on-the-job trainers pathways, the general frame is their role in the professional socialization of learners and through that their influence on the transition process.
| Item Type: | Article in conference proceedings or Presentation at a conference (Poster) |
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| Subjects: | Education > Others in education > Education not elsewhere classified |
| Department/unit: | Dipartimento economia aziendale, sanità e sociale > Centro competenze lavoro, welfare e società |
| Depositing User: | Roberta Besozzi |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Nov 2021 12:46 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Aug 2023 14:00 |
| URI: | http://repository.supsi.ch/id/eprint/12979 |
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