Multiple Dimensions of Teaching and Learning for Occupational Practice

Sai Loo is an academic at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London, United Kingdom.

"This research monograph presents the concept of "ocupational practice" as a possible common denominator across different educational levels and systems, academic disciplines and countries. The total of 13 contributions were written by highly esteemed international researchers from various disciplines and countries. The guiding principle of the volume is to capture TVET, professional and higher education not over the divide, but through what they share in common, which is the connection of teaching, learning and working. This approach does not aim to negate differences, but to condense what is expressed in multiple dimensions of teaching and learning for an occupational practice. The approach of "occupational education", based on this concept, could become a central leitmotif that can bridge the educational world to the world of work across disciplines, levels, systems and countries. Such a boundary object is missing so far. I welcome and appreciate this comprehensive and comparative approach because it asks the fundamental question - what is the pattern that connects? I can confirm what the editor notes: This research monograph is suitable to open the ground for a possible new area of education."Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Gessler, Chair of Vocational and Professional Education and Training, University of Bremen, Institute Technology and Education (ITB), Germany.

• Chapter 1Researching occupational practiceSAI LOO Chapter 2‘Ausbildungsberufe’ – a necessary and complex ingredient of the ‘Dual’ apprenticeship frameworksLORENZ LASSNIGG Chapter 3Occupational preparation for manual work: fitter/machinists and concrete operatorsERICA SMITHChapter 4Perspectives of beginning trades tutors on teaching and learningSELENA CHANChapter 5A typology of occupational teachers’ capacities across the three academic levelsSAI LOO Chapter 6Education and training in human movement programmes: stakeholder perspectivesSALLEE CALDWELL AND MELINDA HALL Chapter 7Educating work-ready youth workers: designing a university program for Australian and international contextsJENNIFER BROOKER Chapter 8Learning to become an entrepreneur in unfavourable conditions: the case of new-entrants in the context of the Greek debt-crisisKONSTANTINOS KARANASIOS AND THOMAS LANS Chapter 9Professionalism and affective learning for new prison officers: learning values, attitudes and behaviours in training at the Scottish Prison ServiceKATRINA MORRISON Chapter 10The journey from healthcare assistant to assistant practitioner: working and learning CLAIRE THURGATE Chapter 11Understanding and appraising medical students’ learning through clinical experiences: participatory practices at workSTEPHEN BILLETT AND LINDA SWEETChapter 12Learning decision making in Emergency MedicineDUNCAN THOMAS CARMICHAEL Chapter 13Reflections on the occupational practiceSAI LOOIndex