Transitions and career learning: youth and governance perspectives

Abstract

This special issue focuses on young people's career choices and career learning, as well as societal governing and interventions targeting youth. The articles emanate from the cross-disciplinary, international conference Transitions, career learning and career management skills-Multidisciplinary and critical perspectives, which was held at Stockholm University in October 2017. An important aim of the conference was to bring together and stimulate exchange between researchers from the commonly separated research fields of youth transitions, career learning and counselling, as well as vocational education and training (VET), respectively. Young people's career choices and school-to-work transitions became prioritised matters

Mobile-Based Application to Integrate Vocational Learning and Career Learning in Mechatronics Engineering Vocational High School

“…So that work-related learning carried out during vocational learning has less impact on increasing students' career development abilities, and vice versa career learning carried out does not have an impact on increasing self-awareness of students' learning to actively participate in vocational learning that is beneficial for their career development (Bassot, 2019;Dodd & Hooley, 2018;Draaisma et al, 2018;Hummel et al, 2018). Therefore, learning in vocational mechatronic engineering skills requires a new learning model that can integrate vocational learning and career learning activities (Ainslie & Huffman, 2019;Lundahl & Ydhag, 2020;Poulsen, 2020). In addition to being able to integrate vocational learning and career learning activities, the new learning model needed by vocational schools with mechatronic engineering skills needs to bridge the characteristics of students who are Generation Z and the characteristics of the world of work in the industrial revolution era 4.0, including the use of digital technology and the habit of human-machine interaction in learning (Chen et al, 2021;Husain & Kolesar, 2018;Majumdar et al, 2020;Yoon et al, 2019).…”