The discourse on technological literacy: exploring visual representations enabled by the visual cultures of four Swedish vocational education and training programmes

IF 1.6 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training Pub Date : 2024-07-22 DOI:10.1186/s40461-024-00167-z
Andreas Larsson, Emelie Fälton, Karin Stolpe
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In today’s rapidly changing world, technology has profoundly impacted our daily lives, making it increasingly difficult to predict what skills will be necessary for the future. To address this challenge, 21st-century skills have been proposed as a framework for shaping future education, in which one of the skills is technological literacy. How the latter is understood, positioned, and approached is influenced by discourses produced within and among various societal practices, such as the educational system. This article provides a glimpse of the discourse on technological literacy by exploring how “technological literacy” is portrayed within the visual cultures of four Swedish upper secondary VET programs. Our results indicate that the portrayals of becoming technologically literate for VET students vary among the programmes. However, they all emphasise practical and hands-on activities, where students can be seen engaging with various tools, equipment, and objects relevant to each programme’s field of study. Teamwork and peer-to-peer learning are also portrayed as central to these programmes, simultaneously as leadership roles and the distribution of responsibilities among students are commonly featured. While the programmes’ visual portrayals reflect diversity in ethnicity and gender, traditional gender roles are still (re)produced in the pictorials.

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当今世界瞬息万变,技术对我们的日常生活产生了深远的影响,因此越来越难以预测未来需要哪些技能。为了应对这一挑战,人们提出了 21 世纪技能作为塑造未来教育的框架,其中一项技能就是技术素养。如何理解、定位和处理技术素养,受到教育系统等各种社会实践内部和之间产生的话语的影响。本文通过探究 "技术素养 "在瑞典四个高中职教项目的视觉文化中是如何被描绘出来的,对技术素养的话语进行了一瞥。我们的研究结果表明,不同的职业教育与培训课程对职业教育与培训学生技术素养的描述各不相同。不过,它们都强调实践和动手活动,在这些活动中,可以看到学生使用各种工具、设备和与每个课程学习领域相关的物品。团队合作和同侪学习也被描绘成这些课程的核心,同时,领导角色和学生之间的责任分配也是这些课程的共同特点。虽然这些计划的视觉形象反映了种族和性别的多样性,但传统的性别角色仍然在画报中 (重新)产生。
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期刊介绍: The main focus of this journal is to provide a platform for original empirical investigations in the field of professional, vocational and technical education, comparing the effectiveness, efficiency and equity of different vocational education systems at the school, company and systemic level. The journal fills a gap in the existing literature focusing on empirically-oriented academic research and stimulating the interest in strengthening the vocational part of the educational system, both at the basic and higher education level.
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