Network: NETWORK 2: VETNET
, European Qualification Framework (EQF), Professional work cultures and Training markets
Wednesday, 2007-09-19, 09:15-10:45, Room: Dunant 2 Auditorium IV, Chair: Pekka Kamarainen
- Understanding the learning of social systems
- Epistemic cultures and dynamic affordances in professional work. A comparative study of accountants, engineers, nurses and teachers
- Exegesis of the Europan qualifications framework
- Insights into the structural and innovative developments within the enterprises' training market in Europe
Volker Bank
Leif Christian Lahn
Karin Luomi-Messerer Jorg Markowitsch
M'Hamed Dif
, Vocational didactics, students motivation and Learning journeys
Wednesday, 2007-09-19, 09:15-10:45, Room: Dunant 2 Leszaal 1B, Chair:
- Vocational didactics - a useful concept?
- Students' motivation for the general subjects in the technical VET-programmes
- The learning journey: adults experiences of further education colleges
Sigurd Johansson Anders Hedman Signild Lemar
Vibe Aarkrog
Jane Salisbury Martin Jephcote Gareth Rees John Roberts
, Reflection and Self-Evaluation for Teachers and Trainers
Wednesday, 2007-09-19, 14:00-15:30, Room: Dunant 2 Leszaal 1B, Chair:
- The role of self-evaluation for quality of work and work conditions
- Improving quality of the work of the trainers through self-reflection on values and roles
- Overview of a self-evaluation approach for CVT teachers and trainers
- From interviews to a self-evaluation tool
Nikitas Patiniotis Theodora Asimakou
Liliana Voicu
Jenny Hughes Cristia Maksutovici
Joergen-Ole Larsen
, The Situation And Changing Role Of Trainers In Europe - Making Lifelong Learning Possible
Wednesday, 2007-09-19, 14:00-15:30, Room: Dunant 2 Leszaal 1C, Chair: Krista Loogma
- European studies on VET trainers in private and public institutions
- Challenges for VET trainers in Scandinavian countries
- The situation of VET trainers in Greece
- European studies on VET trainers in enterprises
Jaap van Lakerveld
Martti Majuri
George K. Zafiris
Simone Kirpal
, Competence-based learning in organisational contexts and Personalised adult learning
Wednesday, 2007-09-19, 16:00-17:30, Room: Dunant 2 Auditorium IV, Chair: Magdolna Benke
- Perceptions of teachers and students participating in competence-based VET
- Competence development in organisations: its use in practice
- Faces and phases of personalisation in vocational adult education and qualifications
Renate Wesselink
Martin Mulder Kate Collins
Petri Haltia
, Attractiveness of VET, Employability and Tacit knowledge
Wednesday, 2007-09-19, 16:00-17:30, Room: Dunant 2 Leszaal 1B, Chair: Marja-Leena Stenstrom
- Model of attractiveness for vocational education in global context
- Assessing employability of low qualified workers and vulnerable populations
- Bringing tacit knowledge to visibility: methodological explorations with "minority professionals"
Lena Siikaniemi
Fernando Marhuenda
Debbie Morgan Phil Bayliss
, Professional Development of Trainers in Europe - Challenges for research methodologies and practices
Wednesday, 2007-09-19, 16:00-17:30, Room: Dunant 2 Leszaal 1C, Chair: Philipp Grollmann
- Use-cases and scenarios - transferring a methodology from software engineering to the domain of researching training practices and professional development of trainers
- How to develop a trans-cultural approach for studying the professional development of trainers?
- Understanding the gender dimension in training practices
- Evaluating communities of practice - consequences for the professional development of trainers
- The situation of trainers and their professional development - implications for the research methodology in Greece and Portugal
Graham Attwell Eileen Luebcke
Pekka Kamarainen
Magdalena Balica
Ineke Lam
Eduardo Figueira Nikitas Patiniotis
, Cross-National Equivalence of Vocational Qualifications and Skills
Thursday, 2007-09-20, 08:30-10:00, Room: Dunant 2 Auditorium IV, Chair:
- Cross-national equivalence of vocational qualifications and skills: synthesis
- Cross-national equivalence of vocational qualifications and skills: the Netherlands
- Cross-national equivalence of vocational qualifications and skills: Germany
- Cross-national equivalence of vocational qualifications and skills: England
- Cross-national equivalence of vocational qualifications and skills: France
Michaela Brockmann
Philippe Mehaut
Georg Hanf
Anneke Westerhuis
Christopher Winch Michaela Brockmann Linda Clarke
, School-to-work transition, Career expectations and Initiatives for lifelong learning
Thursday, 2007-09-20, 08:30-10:00, Room: Dunant 2 Leszaal 1B, Chair: M'Hamed Dif
- Tentative futures: the formation and transformation of young people's vocational aspirations
- The meaning of occupations in the transition from education to work
- Career guidance conversations in vocational education and training: building a model of quality criteria
- Initiatives for "lifelong learning" in Austria - a case for policy learning?
Jenifer Davies
Christian Helms Jorgensen
Kariene Mittendorff
Lorenz Lassnigg
, Improving the Knowledge Base through work and learning partnerships between research & development, professional education and industrial business
Thursday, 2007-09-20, 08:30-10:00, Room: Dunant 2 Leszaal 1C, Chair: Ludger Deitmer
- The role of VET in creating innovative networks and learning region
- Vocational and professional education as regional knowledge centres - the case of the Dutch sector of food and green space
- The evaluation of the development of integrated regional VET centres
- The evaluation of regional workplace learning partnerships in vocational training and working life
Paivi Tynjala Pentti Nikkanen
Thomas Lans Hendrik Kupper Arjen Wals
Magdolna Benke
Ludger Deitmer
, How can we improve modules in (pre-) vocational education and training?
Thursday, 2007-09-20, 15:30-17:00, Room: Dunant 2 Auditorium IV, Chair:
- Research methods applied during the project, focus on survey, experiences and outcomes
- Introduction of dimensions/ elements and their transfer into the tool
- Title TBC
- Example: collaborative networks
Natasha Kersh Karen Evans
Eduardo Figueira Guida Lourenco Liliana Rainha
Otilia Pacurari
Katleen de Rick
, Learning and youth - work life balance - Integration of immigrants
Thursday, 2007-09-20, 15:30-17:00, Room: Dunant 2 Leszaal 1B, Chair: Fernando Marhuenda
- Interculturality in immigrants' education and training
- Dead end kids in dead end jobs? Reshaping debates on young people in jobs without training
- Work-life-balance of mothers - an empirical approach toward modern educational tasks
Johanna Lasonen Marianne Teras
Kim Diment Jocey Quinn Robert Lawy
Hans-Rolf Vetter Bo Hu
, Curriculum development, Flexibility of VET and Skill gaps
Thursday, 2007-09-20, 15:30-17:00, Room: Dunant 2 Leszaal 1C, Chair: Lorenz Lassnigg
- Research-based pedagogic expertise in VET: the gap between employers' expectations and graduates' capacities to apply in practice the acquired professional competencies at higher educational institutions
- The development and flexibility of the swiss vocational and education training system - a pathbound perspective
- The development of the secondary vocational education curriculum in a northern local authority in the UK
Vilma Zydziunaite
Philipp Gonon
Mike Holland Mike Coldwell
, Students' well-being, Effects of school types, Effects of apprentice training
Friday, 2007-09-21, 08:30-10:00, Room: Dunant 2 Auditorium IV, Chair: Michael Gessler
- Link between student wellbeing, achievement and perceptions of interpersonal teacher behaviour over time
- Effectiveness of the VET-system in Switzerland: determinants of apprentices' achievement and positive attitude toward their education
- Effects of school types on occupational chances in Germany: an analysis of official statistics
Karen van Petegem Antonia Aelterman
Markus Neuenschwander
Claudia Schuchart
, Social Capital, Formative assessment and Innovations in VET
Friday, 2007-09-21, 08:30-10:00, Room: Dunant 2 Leszaal 1B, Chair: M'Hamed Dif
- Using social capital to evaluate inclusiveness of Scottish further education colleges
- The impulse VET monitor: the final
- Strait-jacket or springboard?: the effects of formative assessment in the learning cultures of vocational education in the UK
Julie Allan Hannah Doughty
Wil van Esch
Kathryn Ecclestone Jenifer Davies Irena Andrews Carol Collins
, Inspiring learning environments, Connective learning and Workplace skills
Friday, 2007-09-21, 08:30-10:00, Room: Dunant 2 Leszaal 1C, Chair: Fernando Marhuenda
- Evalidating eassessment for workplace skills
- Connecting formal and informal learning
- Inspiring learning environments for future entrepreneurs in the agri-food sector
Jo Pye
Jeroen Onstenk
Harm J.A Biemans Sanne Schaafsma Jos Verstegen
, Mentoring, Competence development and Trans-national cooperation
Friday, 2007-09-21, 10:30-12:00, Room: Dunant 2 Auditorium IV, Chair: Jeroen Onstenk
- AERONET – bottom-up development of a transnational occupational profile
- Employee participation in competence development in smes: enabling and constraining conditions
- The new role of mentoring approaches in vocational training in companies
Andreas Saniter Juergen Ledl
Henrik Kock Andreas Gill
Ludger Deitmer Klaus Ruth
, Quality assurance in VET, higher education and working life
Friday, 2007-09-21, 10:30-12:00, Room: Dunant 2 Leszaal 1B, Chair: Krista Loogma
- Findings for a shaping oriented quality management system
- Quality assurance in VET and HE - possibilities for mutual learning
- Construction and testing of a context-dependent quality development and quality assurance model with labour market reference for the vocational education and training system in the metal sector
- Improving the utilization of quality assurance information in European (i) VET
Georg Spoettl Jessica Blings Matthias Becker
Elizabeth O'Gorman Mairin Barry Bernard McGettrick
Michael Gessler
Adrie Visscher Lars Heinemann
, E-learning, Social Software and Competence Development
Friday, 2007-09-21, 10:30-12:00, Room: Dunant 2 Leszaal 1C, Chair: Lorenz Lassnigg
- Social software, personal learning environments and lifelong competence development
- Supporting competence advancement in cross-national and technologically mediated settings in education
- Game based learning for developing cultural competencies
- Eportfolio as a tool for competence development and "didactical quality"
Graham Attwell Raymond Elferink
Sebastian Fiedler Barbara Kieslinger
Alexandra Toedt
Veronika Hornung
, Researching Innovative Apprenticeships
Friday, 2007-09-21, 14:45-16:15, Room: Dunant 2 Leszaal 1C, Chair: Philipp Grollmann
- Researching innovative apprenticeships
Felix Rauner Lars Heinemann Philipp Grollmann Dorothea Piening
, Organisation of adult Learning - innovations in Higher Education - Learning
Friday, 2007-09-21, 14:45-16:15, Room: Dunant 2 Auditorium IV, Chair: Magdolna Benke
- Innovations and jet lags in the face of change - how does working life see its cooperation with the universities of applied sciences?
- [ORTE] organization and participants of adult education - an instrument to measure coherences between personal variables and expectations of adult learners within the learning process
- Learning trajectories - from higher education to professional practice
Maarit Virolainen
Sina Wagner
Jens-Christian Smeby
, Development Competence in School, Enterprises and in Adult Education
Friday, 2007-09-21, 14:45-16:15, Room: TBA, Chair: Magdalena Balica
- The relation between information processing strategies and the development of the body of knowledge of students in competence-based pre-vocational secondary education
- Adult education as a part of professional life - motivation and participation of Czech adults
- Limits and possibilities for competence development in firms
Wim Jochems Maaike Koopman Peter Teune
Petr Novotny
Martin Kroll
, Organisational climate and feedback of organisational learning
Friday, 2007-09-21, 16:45-18:15, Room: TBA, Chair: Michael Gessler
- Teaching activities and work theories of teachers in innovative vocational education in the Netherlands
- Methodmix and feedback processes inadult ecucation organizations - advantage and disadvantage in using quantitative and qualitative methods for measuring learning culture and organizational diagnostic approach in general
- Factors of organizational climate influencing non-formal and informal learning in companies
Elly de Bruijn
Monika Kil
Zuzana Simberova
, New Approaches of Assessment and Quality in Work-Related Learning
Friday, 2007-09-21, 16:45-18:15, Room: TBA, Chair: Marja-Leena Stenstrom
- Practice-oriented assessment and quality assurance in work-related learning
- The institutional embeddedness of functions and practices of assessment in dual vocational education
- Multiplicity of methods in assessment as a form of quality assurance, control and improvement
- Assessment of practical training in VET as communication between schools, workplaces and student: problems related to those communication acts
- The concepts of assessment and reflection in practice-oriented assessment
Marja-Leena Stenstrom Kati Laine
Philipp Grollmann Roland Tutschner
Justin Rami John Lalor
Krista Loogma Meril Umarik Sofia Joons
Karin Luomi-Messerer
, Evaluation of training, Social Inclusion and emotional intelligence
Friday, 2007-09-21, 16:45-18:15, Room: TBA, Chair: Pekka Kamarainen
- Evaluation and modeling the system of updating the teaching-learning materials/tools for vocational education: facing the challenges
- Putting social inclusion into the practice of vocational schools - challenges for teacher training
- Examining the construct validity of emotional leadership questionnaire
Vilma Zydziunaite
Beatrix Niemeyer
Petri Nokelainen Pekka Ruohotie Kirsi Tirri
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