Besozzi, Roberta (2017) How Swiss on-the-job trainers fulfil the function towards a typological analysis. In: UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)
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The Swiss dual VET system is the pathway followed by most young people after compulsory education. While on-the-job trainers play a key role in the training process, there have been very few studies about them. From a perspective of the sociology of work, and in particular from theories about changes in work, professional identity and commitment to work, this contribution aims to shed light on the impact of changes in the world of work on the endorsement of on-the-job trainers’ positions. This communication draws on a PhD thesis focused on on-the-job trainers’ trajectories in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and is being carried out within a broader study on this theme (Projet FNS100017_153323). Based on qualitative methods and data, this contribution relies on the analysis of semi-structured interviews conducted with on-the-job trainers (N=80) and focus groups (N=4) organized with future on-the-job trainers (N=28). Our preliminary analysis has produced some unexpected results. Some on-the-job trainers show a strong professional identity and commitment to work that they want to transmit to their apprentices. Others also have a strong professional identity and their training duties offer them some room for manoeuvre to withstand their difficult working conditions. Finally, some, while committed to work, do not necessarily show a strong occupational identity. It appears that their position is a way of finding a new sense of meaning in their job. This contribution will discuss the meanings of this position and the impact of changes in the world of work on this issue.
| Item Type: | Article in conference proceedings or Presentation at a conference (Speech) |
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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 12:41 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2021 16:10 |
| URI: | http://repository.supsi.ch/id/eprint/12975 |
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