Between school and working life: Vocational teachers’ agency in boundary-crossing settings

Vähäsantanen, Katja; Saarinen, Jaana; Eteläpelto, Anneli

doi:10.1016/j.ijer.2010.04.003

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“…Following this approach to occupational knowledge and VET teachers' competence, teachers' boundary crossing between work-life and school is significant for vocational education (Berner 2010;Vähäsantanen et al 2009). They crossed the boundary between the practice of the initial occupation and the practice of VET when they became teachers.…”

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Maintaining Competence in the Initial Occupation: Activities among Vocational Teachers

Andersson

Köpsén

2017

Vocations and Learning

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Contemporary work-life changes rapidly, and vocational education and training (VET) teachers need to keep up-to-date with changing knowledge demands and technological developments. This article concerns VET teachers' continuing professional development (CPD) related to the specific vocations for which they teach. The aim is to analyse VET teachers' participation in various types of activities designed to make them become more knowledgeable in relation to industry currency. The study draws on a socio-cultural perspective on practice and learning. Theory concerning adults' participation in education is also used in analysing drivers of and barriers to participation in learning activities. The analyses are based on survey data from 886 Swedish VET teachers relating to their participation in different activities, barriers/ drivers concerning participation in these activities, perceived effects (outcomes) of participation in terms of professional development, and teachers' background. Reading professional texts was the most common CPD activity among those VET teachers participating in the study. Reading, and work in the VET teacher's former/initial occupation were the two activities where variation in performing them could be explained to the highest degree. The study particularly highlights the importance of boundary crossing between school and work-life for maintaining and developing the industrial currency of VET teachers' competence. Active membership and engagement in the community of practice of the initial occupation is important for participation in CPD activities closely related to this community.

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Maintaining Competence in the Initial Occupation: Activities among Vocational Teachers

Andersson

Köpsén

2017

Vocations and Learning

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“…Vocational teachers' management of the interplay between vocational education and working life is considered essential to their work. Because this interplay is a fundamental part of teaching a vocational subject, vocational teachers face special demands (e.g., Berner 2010;Vähäsantanen et al 2009;Tanggaard 2007). Tanggaard shows that vocational teachers play a crucial role in connecting the different socio-cultures of working life and schools in a way that facilitates the success of vocational students.…”

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Continuing professional development of vocational teachers: participation in a Swedish national initiative

Andersson

Köpsén

2015

Empirical Res Voc Ed Train

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“…To shed light on these issues, the qualitative meta-study presented in this paper utilized previous studies to which the various authors had contributed (Vähäsantanen & Billett, 2008;Vähäsantanen, Hökkä, Eteläpelto, Rasku-Puttonen, & Littleton, 2008;Vähäsantanen, Saarinen & Eteläpelto, 2009). The meta-study synthesized the main findings of the primary studies in order to construct comprehensive knowledge on professional agency in the course of change.…”

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Professional agency in the stream of change: Understanding educational change and teachers' professional identities

Vähäsantanen

2015

Teaching and Teacher Education

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Between school and working life: Vocational teachers’ agency in boundary-crossing settings

Cited by 61 publications

References 17 publications

Maintaining Competence in the Initial Occupation: Activities among Vocational Teachers

Maintaining Competence in the Initial Occupation: Activities among Vocational Teachers

Continuing professional development of vocational teachers: participation in a Swedish national initiative

Professional agency in the stream of change: Understanding educational change and teachers' professional identities

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