Re-Contextualizing Vocational Didactics in Norwegian Vocational Education and Training

Authors

  • Hæge Nore Oslo and Akershus University, College of Applied Sciences

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13152/IJRVET.2.3.4

Keywords:

Vocational Didactics, Hybrid Learning, Re-Contextualization, Boundary Crossing, Teachers and Trainers, Vocational Education and Training

Abstract

This article explores teachers and trainers didactical practices in different contexts in Norwegian VET: schools and workplaces. With the introduction of e-resources and e-portfolios in VET, learners as well as teachers and trainers experience a more hybrid learning-arena, which claims for a recontextualization of vocational didactics as well as re-defining roles and responsibilities of the actors. The article discuss new forms of boundary crossing, dealing with e-portfolios as boundary objects, increasing learner autonomy, transformative learning outcomes, interaction between actors and designing learning processes in hybrid learning-arenas. Vocational didactics as understood in a teacher-training context are challenged by more actors and new forms of interactivity with technological tools crossing sites. The study is based on a longitudinal study in a national project on quality assessment, interviews with teachers and trainers as well as apprenticeship training offices supported by documentary evidence from three trades: sales, plumbing and industrial mechanics.

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2015-12-15

How to Cite

Nore, H. (2015). Re-Contextualizing Vocational Didactics in Norwegian Vocational Education and Training. International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2(3), 182–194. https://doi.org/10.13152/IJRVET.2.3.4

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