Vocational knowledge in motion: rethinking vocational knowledge through vocational teachers’ professional development

Vocational teachers' identity formation through boundary crossing

Vocational teachers’ prior occupational experiences are construed as those that will guarantee high-quality teaching in vocational education, although individuals are no longer required to have formal teaching qualifications to be employed as teachers in Sweden. This lack of strict requirements raises the issue of the preparedness of vocational teachers to teach their subject matter. Drawing on...

Constructing Vocational Knowledge: history, communities and ontogeny

This article examines how different forms of vocational knowledge are constructed from social sources. Using a Vygotskian framework it is claimed that in different ways vocational knowledge is shaped by history, community and ontogeny through microgenetic development. This process of ongoing problem-solving links social circumstances to the development of the cognitive structures necessary to c...

Dispositions, vocational knowledge and development: Sources and consequences

Vocational Teachers ' Role in Workplace Learning Curriculum

Computer Anxiety Levels of Vocational Agriculture Teachers

Several researchers have addressed the computer competencies needed by students and their teachers, and attitudes towards computers (Birkenholz & Harbstreit, 1987; Bowen, Mincemoyer & Pannley, 1983; Henderson, 1985: Miller & Kotrlik, 1987; Neason & Miller, 1982; Newman & Henderson, 1987; Trede, Russell & Miller, 1985; Zidon & Luft, 1987). Other writers have addressed the educational uses of the...