Learning in unaccredited internship as development of interns’ ‘horizontal expertise’

IF 1.9 2区 教育学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Vocations and Learning Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI:10.1007/s12186-023-09342-x
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The rise of internships as a form of work experience that students pursue during their degree or after graduation has been accompanied by an upsurge of discussions, critical and favourable, on the role of internships for interns’ employment opportunities. There is a need, however, to understand the learning that goes in internship as for many students internship is a setting where work practices are encountered for the first time. Recently it has been suggested that unaccredited internship can be seen as constituting a separate work activity that needs to be examined in its own right. The aim of this article is to contribute to this literature by focusing on the learning challenges that arise in unaccredited internship and identifying the capacities that interns develop as a result of tackling these challenges. To that end, I identify a set of analytical concepts from vocational learning literature developed to understand the challenges and opportunities associated with learning across contexts (i.e. education and work): horizontal expertise, boundary-crossing, recontextualisation and identity-renegotiation. Then I analyse data on learning in unaccredited internships collected from five focus groups and two interviews (18 interns). A dialogic discourse analysis of focus group and interview discourses revealed that the interns in unaccredited internship developed an emerging capacity to learn and work competently across multiple contexts and to initiate and coordinate subsequent cycles of boundary-crossing between education and work. The paper proposes the notion of “interns’ horizontal expertise” to describe this emerging capacity that arises from learning in unaccredited internship and continues after the internship and explains how this concept differs from other expressions of horizontal expertise in the literature such as the horizontal expertise of seasoned professionals in inter-professional activities and boundary-crossing in work placements.

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在未经认证的实习中学习,培养实习生的 "横向专业知识
摘 要 实习作为学生在攻读学位期间或毕业后获得工作经验的一种形式而兴起,随之而来的 是关于实习对实习生就业机会的作用的大量讨论,有批评的,也有赞成的。然而,我们有必要了解实习过程中的学习情况,因为对许多学生来说,实习是第一次接触工作实践。最近有人提出,未经认可的实习可以被视为一种独立的工作活动,需要对其本身进行研究。本文的目的是通过关注在未经认证的实习中出现的学习挑战,并确定实习生在应对这些挑战的过程中发展的能力,为这一文献做出贡献。为此,我从职业学习文献中确定了一系列分析性概念,这些概念是为了理解与跨语境(即教育和工作)学习相关的挑战和机遇而开发的:横向专业知识、跨界、重新语境化和身份重新协商。然后,我分析了从五个焦点小组和两次访谈(18 名实习生)中收集到的关于未经认证的实习学习的数据。对焦点小组和访谈话语的对话式分析表明,未经认证的实习生发展出了一种新的能力,能够胜任多种情境下的学习和工作,并启动和协调教育与工作之间的后续跨界循环。本文提出了 "实习生的横向专业知识 "这一概念,以描述这种在未经认证的实习中学习并在实习结束后继续学习的新兴能力,并解释了这一概念与文献中其他横向专业知识的表达方式有何不同,如经验丰富的专业人员在跨专业活动中的横向专业知识和工作实习中的跨界。
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Vocations and Learning
Vocations and Learning EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-
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期刊介绍: Vocations and Learning: Studies in Vocational and Professional Education is an international peer-reviewed journal that provides a forum for strongly conceptual and carefully prepared manuscripts that inform the broad field of vocational learning. The scope of the journal and its focus on vocational learning is inclusive of vocational and professional learning albeit through the very diverse range of settings (e.g. vocational colleges, schools, universities, workplaces, domestic environments, voluntary bodies etc) in which it occurs. It stands to be the only truly international journal that focuses on vocational learning, as encompassing the activities that comprise vocational education and professional education in their diverse forms internationally. Vocations and Learning aims to: enhance the contribution of research and scholarship to vocational and professional education policy; support the development of conceptualisation(s) of vocational and professional learning and education; improve the quality of practice within vocational and professional learning and education; and enhance and support the standing of these fields as a sectors with its own significant purposes, pedagogies and curriculums. Vocations and Learning: Studies in Vocational and Professional Education encourages the submission of high-quality contributions from a broad range of disciplines, as well as those that cross disciplinary boundaries, in addressing issues associated with vocational and professional education. It is intended that contributions will represent those from major disciplines (i.e. psychology, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, history, cultural studies, labour studies, industrial relations and economics) as cross overs within and hybrids with and amongst these disciplinary traditions. These contributions can comprise papers that provide either empirically-based accounts, discussions of theoretical perspectives or reviews of literature about vocational learning. In addition, books, reports and policies associated with vocational learning will also be reviewed. Topics addressed through contributions within the proposed journal might include, but will not be restricted to: curriculum and pedagogy practices for vocational learning the role and nature of knowledge in vocational learning the nature of vocations, professional practice and learning the relationship between context and learning in vocational settings the nature and role of vocational education the nature of goals for vocational learning different manifestations and comparative analyses of vocational education, their purposes and formation organisational pedagogics transformations in vocational learning and education over time and space analyses of instructional practice within vocational learning and education analyses of vocational learning and education policies international comparisons of vocational learning and education critical appraisal of contemporary policies, practices and initiatives studies of teaching and learning in vocational education approaches to vocational learning in non-work settings and in unpaid work learning throughout working lives relationships between vocational learning and economic imperatives and conceptions and national and trans-national agencies and their policies.
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