Introducing infrared cameras in the study of pigs’ physiology and health as cognitive apprenticeship in vocational education

As part of a participatory action-research project, students at the vocational upper-secondary Natural Resource Use programme in Sweden were introduced to infrared cameras their courses. Students video recorded as they used investigation pigs’ physiology and health school’s pig house explained generated images whole-class dialogue, together with involved teachers researcher. found that pig’s injured leg has high temperature, but also, more surprisingly, udder abcesses lower temperature than surrounding healthy tissue. expressed excitement explaining results. From perspective seeing education kind cognitive apprenticeship, students’ investigations dialogue researcher are characterised an example authentic activity community learners, where expertise was distributed across all participants.