Multiple Dimensions of Teaching and Learning for Occupational Practice

265 Pages·2018·1.663 MB·English

by  Sai Loo

Multiple Dimensions of Teaching
and Learning for Occupational
Practice
Multiple Dimensions of Teaching and Learning for Occupational Practice offers a
collection of international perspectives on work-related education and training
at further/Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), higher
and professional levels. The book provides a new area of study of o ccupational
education with tripartite dimensions concerning learning, teaching and working.
Providing space for further research and implementation possibilities, the
book offers comprehensive multidisciplinary and multi-level perspectives, g iving
extensive coverage of the structure and focus of these types of programmes
concerning geographical locations and academic levels, and also drawing on
perspectives from national, institutional and individual interactions. Topics of
investigations include apprenticeships, education of occupational teachers,
training of workers and entrepreneurs, and working of physicians.
Multiple Dimensions of Teaching and Learning for Occupational Practice will be
vital reading for academics in education, educationalists in the related areas of
clinical practices, sports and culture-related industries, researchers, policymakers,
government officials and those from socio-development change agencies.
Sai Loo is an academic at the UCL Institute of Education, University College
London, United Kingdom.

Multiple Dimensions of
Teaching and Learning for
Occupational Practice
Edited by Sai Loo
First published 2019
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Names: Loo, Sai, editor.
Title: Multiple dimensions of teaching and learning for occupational
practice / edited by Sai Loo.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018038042 (print) | LCCN 2018048088 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780429505119 (E-book) | ISBN 9781138585713 (hbk) |
ISBN 9780429505119 (ebk)
Subjects: LCSH: Occupational training. | Vocational education. |
Professional education. | School-to-work transition.
Classification: LCC HD5715 (ebook) | LCC HD5715 .M85 2019 (print) |
DDC 658.3/124—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018038042
ISBN: 978-1-138-58571-3 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-429-50511-9 (ebk)
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To Caroline and Anna for their warm support and not
forgetting the irrepressible Tosca.
To my father, for all he has done for me, and to my
sister for allowing me locations to write.

Contents
List of figures and tables ix
List of contributors xi
Acknowledgements xv
1 Researching occupational practice 1
SAI LOO
2 ‘Ausbildungsberufe’ – a necessary and complex ingredient
of the ‘Dual’ apprenticeship frameworks 8
LORENZ LASSNIGG
3 Occupational preparation for manual work:
fitter/machinists and concrete product operators 37
ERICA SMITH
4 Perspectives of beginning trades tutors
on teaching and learning 56
SELENA CHAN
5 A typology of occupational teachers’ capacities across
the three academic levels 72
SAI LOO
6 Education and training in human movement
programmes: stakeholder perspectives 92
SALLEE CALDWELL AND MELINDA HALL
viii Contents
7 Educating work-ready youth workers: appraising a
university program for Australian and
international contexts 110
JENNIFER BROOKER
8 Learning to become an entrepreneur in unfavourable
conditions: the case of new entrants in the context of
the Greek debt-crisis 131
KONSTANTINOS KARANASIOS AND THOMAS LANS
9 Professionalism and affective learning for new prison
officers: learning values, attitudes and behaviours in
training at the Scottish Prison Service 150
KATRINA MORRISON
10 The journey from healthcare assistant to assistant
practitioner: working and learning 170
CLAIRE THURGATE
11 Understanding and appraising medical students’
learning through clinical experiences: participatory
practices at work 200
STEPHEN BILLETT AND LINDA SWEET
12 Learning decision making in the emergency department 217
DUNCAN THOMAS CARMICHAEL
13 Reflections on the occupational practice 236
SAI LOO
Index 245
Figures and tables
Figures
2.1 Occupational categories of completers of apprenticeship in
Austria (2016) 15
2.2 Demography and apprenticeship in Austria 1970–2017 23
2.3 Access to apprenticeship related to demography and overall
unemployment 24
2.4 Ownership of apprenticeships by sub-units 26
2.5 Comparison of sub-units with ownership to divisions by
main indicators 27
2.6 Change of occupational categories 1999–2017 30
5.1 Typology of recontextualisation processes 78
Tables
2.1 The structure of the Austrian Economic Chambers and the
embeddedness of apprenticeship 19
2.2 Change of training occupations, creation of new
occupations 1999–2017 29
3.1 Research participants for occupational studies, for the two
occupations 40
3.2 Details of the full case studies for the two occupations 41
3.3 Structure of the two qualifications 45
3.A1 Findings about the requirements for each of the list
of employability skills for the occupation of fitter and
machinist, from case study interviews 52
3.A2 Other elements of the job: extent to which these applied in
the job 53
3.A3 Level of literacy/numeracy requirements of the job 53
3.B1 Findings about the requirements for each of the list of
employability skills for the occupation of concrete products
operator, from case study interviews 54