Mestring i Ungdomsbedrift: risiko, virkelighetsnærhet og selvregulering

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: Mastery in the Company Programme: Risk Taking, Realism and Self-regulation

This article explores how students at two European upper secondary schools expe-rience mastery in the Company Programme (CP). Data are collected from two schools, one in Finland and one in Latvia. Focus group interviews are conducted with a total of twelve students. The students who participated in the study are bet-ween 17 and 18 years old and attend the second year of upper secondary school. In addition, we draw on background data from group interviews with nine teachers. The main finding is that most students experience increased self-efficacy through working with CP, but some students do not experience this. Many students work relatively hard and targeted in the CP, and express having many positive mastery experiences and increased self-efficacy. Other students seem to have low effort and even quit the programme, and they probably have few positive mastery expe-riences. Still, CP has a very exciting potential in terms of mastery expectations: most participants express having positive experiences, and some of the students who experience having positive mastery experiences, usually do not experience mastery in a school context.

Citation: Schofield, D. og Aae, J. K. (2018). Mestring i Ungdomsbedrift: risiko, virkelighetsnærhet og selvregulering. Tidsskriftet FoU i Praksis, 12(2), 49–66.