This article proposes a model for the design of a hybrid VET curriculum across the school-work boundary.
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We report research into the evolvement of a hybrid learning environment where education, companies and government successfully cooperate. This hybrid learning environment—one of the latest inventions in curriculum design—is special because it was neither intended nor planned by the parties involved. With some self-astonishment, the participants in this research experienced a growing acknowledgement of their emerging educational creation, aside from the experience of and appreciation for their cooperation and the increasing turnover. With a bricolage research approach within the scope of a rhizomatic perspective on becoming, a multivocal perspective on the evolvement of the learning environment was pursued. In emphasizing the historical evolvement of the learning environment, our findings challenge the tradition of drawing board design, accompanied by an appeal for re-appreciating professional craftsmanship. In addition, some reflections regarding the research are discussed.
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Symposiumbijdrage conferentie EARLI SIG 14, 11-14 september 2018, Genève Learning across the contexts of school and the workplace is highly relevant to the VET-sector. This contribution analyses these cross-contextual learning processes with three key issues in mind: (1) guidance by vocational educators, (2) assessment of students’ development and (3) design of VET-learning environments. Guidance, assessment and overarching VET-curriculum designs form the basis for constructive alignment as an approach to optimize conditions for high quality cross-contextual learning processes. We used the theoretical framework of boundary crossing to clarify the complex, multilevel nature of these key issues.
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Paperbijdrage conferentie EARLI SIG 14, 11-14 september 2018, Genève Although professional performance at the workplace is essential in VET, little is known about what educators do when assessing students’ performance. This study aims to explore how workplace educators inform their judgements of students’ performance by looking at strategies and potentially influencing factors.
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Greenport West-Holland en de EconomicBoard Zuid Holland werken samen aan de ontwikkeling en uitvoering van een human capitalagenda (HCA) voor de provincie en de Greenport. Hiervoor wordt in juni –juli 2019 een Human CapitalAkkoord gesloten met meerdere sectoren waaronder de Greenport. Onderdeel van het akkoord is een gezamenlijke investering in een eerste pilot (2019 –2022) met een focus op van Werk naar Werk. Greenport West-Holland heeft aan de hand van de bestaande HCA van de topsector tuinbouw & uitgangsmaterialen, Techniek pact, Groen pact, ambities van Glastuinbouw Nederland, AVAG, handel en de inbreng vanuit de mooie voorbeelden in de regio (de pareltjes), individuele ondernemers en gemeenten een samenhangend pakket van interventies uitgewerkt. Deze interventies sluiten voor een groot deel aan op de EBZ pilot doelstellingen (VET), maar niet allemaal. De interventies maken zoveel mogelijk gebruik van bestaande oplossingen (pareltjes) die versterkt en verbonden worden.
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In het middelbaar beroepsonderwijs worden hybride leeromgevingen, waarin de contexten van school en werk worden geïntegreerd, gezien als een veelbelovende manier om onderwijs en praktijk beter op elkaar aan te laten sluiten. Er is weinig bekend over het duurzaam ontwerpen van deze integratieve leeromgevingen binnen een mbo-instelling als geheel, waarbij het gaat om leeromgevingen van verschillende sectoren. In deze meervoudige, tweejarige case study zijn 45 integratieve leeromgevingen op de grens van school en werk, verspreid over zes sectoren binnen één onderwijsinstelling in kaart gebracht. Deze leeromgevingen zijn in focusgroepen geanalyseerd op 1) waar zij zich bevinden op de dimensie school-werk, 2) de ontwerpkenmerken inhoudelijk, sociaal, temporeel, instrumenteel en ruimtelijk, en 3) bevorderende en belemmerende factoren bij het ontwerpen en uitvoeren van integratieve leeromgevingen. Dit onderzoek geeft inzicht in hoe deze leeromgevingen zijn ontworpen en welke factoren daarbij van belang zijn. Integratief samenwerken met het werkveld blijkt in alle sectoren mogelijk. De ontwerpkenmerken inhoudelijk, sociaal en ruimtelijk worden vaker als integratief ervaren dan het ontwerpkenmerk temporeel. Vanuit het temporele perspectief blijken vooral kaders van school leidend en komen daarmee naar voren als een belangrijke factor in het succesvol opschalen en verduurzamen van leeromgevingen.
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Learning environment designs at the boundary of school and work can be characterised as integrative because they integrate features from the contexts of school and work. Many different manifestations of such integrative learning environments are found in current vocational education, both in senior secondary education and higher professional education. However, limited research has focused on how to design these learning environments and not much is known about their designable elements (i.e. the epistemic, spatial, instrumental, temporal and social elements that constitute the learning environments). The purpose of this study was to examine manifestations of two categories of integrative learning environment designs: designs based on incorporation; and designs based on hybridisation. Cross-case analysis of six cases in senior secondary vocational education and higher professional education in the Netherlands led to insights into the designable elements of both categories of designs. We report findings about the epistemic, spatial, instrumental, temporal and social elements of the studied cases. Specific characteristics of designs based on incorporation and designs based on hybridisation were identified and links between the designable elements became apparent, thus contributing to a deeper understanding of the design of learning environments that aim to connect the contexts of school and work.
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Patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) are more sedentary compared with the general population, but contemporary cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programmes do not specifically target sedentary behaviour (SB). We developed a 12-week, hybrid (centre-based+home-based) Sedentary behaviour IntervenTion as a personaLisEd Secondary prevention Strategy (SIT LESS). The SIT LESS programme is tailored to the needs of patients with CAD, using evidence-based behavioural change methods and an activity tracker connected to an online dashboard to enable self-monitoring and remote coaching. Following the intervention mapping principles, we first identified determinants of SB from literature to adapt theory-based methods and practical applications to target SB and then evaluated the intervention in advisory board meetings with patients and nurse specialists. This resulted in four core components of SIT LESS: (1) patient education, (2) goal setting, (3) motivational interviewing with coping planning, and (4) (tele)monitoring using a pocket-worn activity tracker connected to a smartphone application and providing vibrotactile feedback after prolonged sedentary bouts. We hypothesise that adding SIT LESS to contemporary CR will reduce SB in patients with CAD to a greater extent compared with usual care. Therefore, 212 patients with CAD will be recruited from two Dutch hospitals and randomised to CR (control) or CR+SIT LESS (intervention). Patients will be assessed prior to, immediately after and 3 months after CR. The primary comparison relates to the pre-CR versus post-CR difference in SB (objectively assessed in min/day) between the control and intervention groups. Secondary outcomes include between-group differences in SB characteristics (eg, number of sedentary bouts); change in SB 3 months after CR; changes in light-intensity and moderate-to-vigorous-intensity physical activity; quality of life; and patients’ competencies for self-management. Outcomes of the SIT LESS randomised clinical trial will provide novel insight into the effectiveness of a structured, hybrid and personalised behaviour change intervention to attenuate SB in patients with CAD participating in CR.
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Educational institutions and vocational practices need to collaborate to design learning environments that meet current-day societal demands and support the development of learners’ vocational competence. Integration of learning experiences across contexts can be facilitated by intentionally structured learning environments at the boundary of school and work. Such learning environments are co-constructed by educational institutions and vocational practices. However, co-construction is challenged by differences between the practices of school and work, which can lead to discontinuities across the school–work boundary. More understanding is needed about the nature of these discontinuities and about design considerations to counterbalance these discontinuities. Studies on the co-construction of learning environments are scarce, especially studies from the perspective of representatives of work practice. Therefore, the present study explores design considerations for co-construction through the lens of vocational practice. The study reveals a variety of discontinuities related to the designable elements of learning environments (i.e. epistemic, spatial, instrumental, temporal, and social elements). The findings help to improve understanding of design strategies for counterbalancing discontinuities at the interpersonal and institutional levels of the learning environment. The findings confirm that work practice has a different orientation than school practice since there is a stronger focus on productivity and on the quality of the services provided. However, various strategies for co-construction also seem to take into account the mutually beneficial learning potential of the school–work boundary.
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In de volgende paragrafen zetten we eerst uiteen hoe de beroepsgerichte analyse van de generieke kennisbasis voor de tweedegraads lerarenopleidingen is aangepakt. Vervolgens geven we schematisch weer welke aanvullingen in de generieke kennisbasis voor de tweedegraads lerarenopleidingen zijn opgesteld. In de laatste paragraaf worden de aanvullingen van beknopte achtergrondinformatie voorzien
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