Structural Decoupling between the VET and the Employment Systems: Challenges Manifested in Assessment of Practical Training

Autor/inn/en	Umarik, Meril; Loogma, Krista; Hinno, Krista
Titel	Structural Decoupling between the VET and the Employment Systems: Challenges Manifested in Assessment of Practical Training
Quelle	In: Journal of Education and Work, 23 (2010) 2, S.145-160 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-9080
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Vocational Education; Nursing Education; Information Technology; Systems Approach; Employment; Social Systems; Nurses; Interviews; Practicums; Theory Practice Relationship; Student Evaluation; Feedback (Response); Organizational Change; School Business Relationship; Estonia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Pflegepädagogik; Informationstechnologie; Systemischer Ansatz; Dienstverhältnis; Social system; Soziales System; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Practicum; Praktikum; Praktika; Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Organisationswandel; Estland
Abstract	This article aims to analyse how structural decoupling, which is an especially relevant problem for school-based vocational education and training (VET) systems, reveals itself in the assessment of practical training. Niklas Luhmann's social system theory has been applied to the analysis of assessment practices as a communication act between the VET and the employment systems. This analysis is based on empirical data gathered by semi-structured interviews of different stakeholders in the assessment process from two fields of the VET system--the training of nurses and of information technology (IT) specialists. The analysis explores several problems in assessment practices, including fictitious assessment practices, low quality of training and motivation of workplace trainers, and also the lack of correspondence between the school curriculum and the competence base needed in the real workplace. In this study, some of these challenges are explained by communication disruptions in Luhmann's sense and the others by the structural decoupling between the VET and the employment systems. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10