FoU-baserte læringsaktiviteter i yrkesfaglærerutdanning

Sammenheng mellom utdanning og profesjonsutøvelse?

Abstract

Note: This article was published in the journal FOU i praksis. The journal changed its name to Nordisk tidsskrift for utdanning og praksis in September 2019.

English title: R&D-based learning activities in Vocational teacher education Coherence between education and professional practice

The aim of this article is to examine to what extent there is coherence between research activities in vocational teacher education, and former vocational students’ use of R&D competence in their professional practice as qualified teachers. Coherence, transfer and self-efficacy are central terms in this article.There are two groups of informants in this study. The first is student teachers at the final stage in their vocational teacher education. The second is former students, now working as qualified vocational teachers. The data in the study are based on reflection notes, interviews and survey, collected and analysed in the spring of 2017.Our results indicate that student teachers in the final phase of their education have a positive attitude to R&D based learning activities. Further, that they also have experience with and expectations of mastering R&D based learning activities in their professional practice as vocational teachers. Furthermore, the results indi-cate that former students are using R&D based learning activities in their work as vocational teachers, indicating a relatively high degree of transfer and coherence between educational context and school (working) context.

Citation: Spetalen, H. og Eben, B. (2018). FoU-baserte læringsaktiviteter i yrkesfaglærerutdanning. Tidsskriftet FoU i Praksis, 12(3), 29–49.