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  • 1.
    Andersson, Per
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Hellgren, Mattias
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Sociology. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education. Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Factors influencing the value of CPD activities among VET teachers2018In: International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, ISSN 2197-8638, E-ISSN 2197-8646, Vol. 5, no 2, p. 140-164Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Context: Teachers in vocational education and training (VET teachers) have specific conditions for their continuing professional development (CPD). They have a background in an initial occupation, in which they now teach and train the next generation. Thus, as VET teachers, they are expected to master the knowledge and skills of that occupa- tion, even if they have now crossed the boundary from the community of their initial occupation to the community of the school. This study explores the perceived values among VET teachers of different activities that may contribute to their CPD in teaching subjects/initial occupations. The study examines VET at the upper secondary level in Sweden. Here, the VET teachers have the main responsibility for students’ vocational learning in the vocational subjects, including the work-based parts. In the latter parts, the teachers are supplemented by supervisors at the workplace.

    Approach: We argue for the duality of a VET teacher identity with a professional competence that comprises two intertwined parts – teaching skills, and knowledge of the teaching subjects based in the teachers’ initial occupations. Our study is based on a situated learning perspective, and the empirical findings particularly concern values created from learning through participation and boundary crossing. CPD activities typi- cally include some form of participation in and/or boundary crossing between school and work-life practices. In the analysis we also include the possible influence of institutional, situational, and dispositional drivers and barriers for participation in different activities. The research question was: what factors can explain the variation in perceived values created by participation in different CPD activities among VET teachers? The study was conducted as a survey of 886 Swedish VET teachers. Focus was put on the values created through different types of activity, values for the teachers’ vocational knowledge, for networks in working life, and for teaching. The data were primarily analysed using logistic regression modelling.

    Findings: Dispositional drivers, the teacher’s sex, and regular performance of the ac- tivity are important for the perceived value. The dispositional factor is the one most commonly retained, and it has a consistently positive effect. Factors such as educa- tional background and vocational training have weaker influence, which suggests that individual driving factors are important when VET teachers assess the value of CPD activities.

    Conclusions: The study covers a general challenge for VET teachers, but is of particular relevance in systems with a high degree of school-based VET, full-time employed VET teachers, and VET teachers who are responsible for students’ vocational learning. Here, the values for vocational knowledge, for networks, and for teaching that are created through different activities are important for the VET teacher identity. They are also interrelated, and together they provide professional development in relation to the initial occupation, and for the occupation as a vocational teacher.

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  • 2.
    Andersson, Per
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Aktuella kunskaper i undervisningsämnet: En utmaning för yrkesläraren2018In: Yrkesutbildning: Mellan skola och arbetsliv / [ed] Maria Gustavsson och Susanne Köpsén, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2018, 1, p. 119-135Chapter in book (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Yrkeslärare är en grupp som befinner sig i en speciell situation jämfört med andra lärarkategorier. De har en bakgrund i ett annat yrke, och samtidigt som de har blivit lärare är de fortfarande i många fall tätt knutna till sitt tidigare yrke. Det vill säga att de har ett ”grundyrke” som de utbildat sig till och jobbat inom innan de blev lärare, och för vilket de nu utbildar nästa generation yrkesverksamma. Som yrkeslärare förväntas de vara kunniga inom yrkesområdet de utbildar för, men för att hålla sig uppdaterade i sitt grundyrke behöver de möjligheter till kontinuerlig kompetensutveckling av olika slag.

  • 3.
    Andersson, Per
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Att bli vuxenutbildare i Norden och Baltikum.: Nationell rapport: Sverige.2010Report (Other academic)
  • 4.
    Andersson, Per
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Att vara yrkeslärare: Yrkesdidaktiska utmaningar2019In: Lära till yrkeslärare / [ed] Susanne Köpsén, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2019, 2, p. 243-256Chapter in book (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Detta kapitel avslutar boken Lära till yrkeslärare. Det sammanfattar bokens innehåll samt diskuterar aktuella frågor kring yrkeslärares arbete nu och i framtiden.

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  • 5.
    Andersson, Per
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    BAEA: Becoming Adult Educators in the European Area: National report - Sweden2010Report (Other academic)
  • 6.
    Andersson, Per
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Becoming adult educators in Sweden: A biographical perspective2009In: Educating the adult educator: Quality provision and assessment in Europe / [ed] A. Papastamatis, E. Valkanos, G.K. Zarifis & E. Panitsidou, Thessaloniki: University of Macedonia , 2009, p. 401-411Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 7.
    Andersson, Per
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Becoming Adult Educators in the Nordic-Baltic Region: National Report: Sweden2009Report (Other academic)
  • 8.
    Andersson, Per
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Becoming an adult educator: Folk high school teacher education in transformation2009Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    This paper discusses present Swedish path-ways for prospective adult educators, e.g. folk high school teachers, and the state of policy with a proposal for new teacher education. As a background, the context of policy and provision of liberal, general and vocational adult education is described.

    Presently there is one teacher-education programme dedicated to adult education, for folk high school teachers (liberal adult education). For general/vocational adult education, there is no specific programme, but teachers in these sectors should teach pupils of all ages (including adults) on their respective level. E.g. a teacher in vocational education in upper secondary school is also expected to teach in vocational adult education on upper secondary level. Here it should be noted that for post-secondary ‘advanced (higher) vocational education’ there are neither any teacher education nor formal demands on teachers’ educational competence.

    An official report (green paper) on new Swedish teacher education was presented in December 2008. Among other things, the report proposes that the folk high school teacher programme will be put down, and that teachers for liberal adult education will be educated together with ‘subject teachers’ for general adult education and upper secondary school. An interesting concern here is how contents specifically related to the folk high school as a teaching context will be covered in such a new teacher education. Thus the future role of adult education and the adult educator, and particulary the folk high school and its prospective teachers, in a transformed Swedish teacher education is presently unclear. The adult educator is not in focus in teacher education and adult education policy today. However, the governmental bill (white paper) concerning the new teacher education implemented in 2011 will be presented in December 2009 and might (or might not) result in opportunity structures where the adult educator is more in focus.

  • 9.
    Andersson, Per
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Continuing professional development of vocational teachers: Participation in a national initiative in Sweden2014Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    This study concerns the continuing professional development (CPD) of vocational teachers, with a particular focus on professional development within their vocational subject areas. The theoretical departure are socio-cultural theory of identity formation focusing the boundary-crossing between different communities of practice, and theory of adults’ participation in education, which is relevant when it comes to conditions for learning and identity formation among vocational teachers. The subject knowledge of the vocational teacher is normally based on vocational education and work-life experience, which means specific conditions as compared to other groups of teachers. Changes in working life poses new demands of vocational teachers’ competence in their subject knowledge at the same time as there are demands of strengthening the quality of vocational education. The knowledge and skills related to the vocational subject in school are situated in a specific community of practice, that is, a vocational practice. In so, to be knowledgeable to teach the vocational subject requires the teacher to have a vocational identity related the specific vocational subject, and to have the knowledge and skills of the contemporary main tasks of the vocational practice. It has been shown that boundary crossings between the vocational practices and the practice of school are crucial for vocational teachers to maintain and develop their vocational/professional knowledge and identity and that there are various conditions/barriers for such boundary crossings. In this paper we are analysing the participation among Swedish vocational teachers in a national initiative targeting vocational teachers and their professional development within the vocational subjects. The analysis is based on statistical data on participation in this initiative. The findings are discussed in terms of varying opportunities of participation and boundary crossing in and between different communities of practice, and consequences for the development of teachers’ professional identity. The opportunities of participation could be influenced by for example institutional and situational factors.

  • 10.
    Andersson, Per
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Continuing professional development of vocational teachers: participation in a Swedish national initiative2015In: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, ISSN 1877-6345, Vol. 7, no 7, p. 1-20Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This study concerns the continuing professional development (CPD) of vocational teachers. As a starting point, vocational teaching as a profession is based on a type of dual professionalism. Thus, the conditions of vocational teachers’ competence in their teaching subject differ from those of other groups of teachers. In this article, we analyse vocational teachers’ participation in a Swedish national initiative that targets vocational teachers’ CPD within their vocational subjects. Because of changes in working life and demands to strengthen the quality of Swedish vocational education, vocational teachers are expected to be well qualified and up-to-date in the vocation they teach. Swedish vocational teachers normally spend most of their time teaching in schools, and the means through which vocational teachers meet the demands of contemporary vocational competence differ. The national initiative provides vocational teachers opportunities to participate in the vocational, work-life community of practice of their subject for at least 2 weeks. This study aims to explore vocational teachers’ participation in this CPD programme. The analysis is based on registry data on participation in the initiative. Our theoretical foundation is the socio-cultural theory of identity formation, with a focus on the boundary crossing between different communities of practice, and a theory of adults’ participation in education. The findings show differences in participation according to age, vocational area, and geographic location. The results indicate that participation opportunities may be influenced by, for example, institutional factors and situational factors. This implication is discussed in relation to vocational teachers’ development of a professional identity and their teaching of the vocational subject.

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  • 11.
    Andersson, Per
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Lärares utveckling av ämneskunskap: En studie av yrkeslärares kompetensutveckling inom yrkesämnen2018In: Resultatdialog 2018, Stockholm: Vetenskapsrådet , 2018, p. 20-22Chapter in book (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    För att hålla sig uppdaterade och utveckla sitt ämneskunnande behöver yrkeslärare inom gymnasieskola och vuxenutbildning möjligheter till kompetensutveckling i nära kontakt med sina olika yrken och branscher. För dessa lärare är kompetensutveckling extra viktigt, eftersom kunskapsutvecklingen i många yrken går så snabbt. Även mer informellt nätverkande har stor betydelse, visar denna studie.

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    Lärares utveckling av ämneskunskap: En studie av yrkeslärares kompetensutveckling inom yrkesämnen
  • 12.
    Andersson, Per
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Maintaining vocational competence: a survey study among vocational teachers2016Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Teachers’ subject knowledge is crucial for the quality of education. Contemporary work life changes rapidly, which challenges vocational education and training (VET) and teachers who need up-to-date vocational competence. This paper concerns VET teachers’ continuing professional development (CPD) related to vocational subjects and basic vocations in which they teach. The aim is to analyse teachers’ participation in varying types of CPD activities. The study draws on a socio-cultural perspective on practice, identity, and learning. Furthermore, the analysis is related to theory concerning adults’ participation in education, which shows how different factors influence participation in CPD. A survey was distributed to 2,000 Swedish VET teachers. The analyses are based on data on participation in different activities, barriers/drivers for participation in these activities, and perceived effects in terms of professional development.

    Results show similar patterns of participation between vocational areas, but with some significant differences between the areas. The variation in vocational areas does not have that much influence on participation. Reading vocational texts is the most common activity among those covered in the study. To read, and to work in the teacher’s basic vocation, are the two activities where variation in doing them could be explained to the highest degree.

  • 13.
    Andersson, Per
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Swedish teacher education in transformation2009In: ECER 2009, Vienna, 28-30 September 2009, 2009, p. 1-20Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 14.
    Andersson, Per
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    VET teachers between school and working life: boundary processes enabling continuing professional development2019In: Journal of Education and Work, ISSN 1363-9080, E-ISSN 1469-9435, Vol. 2, no 6-7, p. 537-551Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Changes in working life require development in vocational education and training (VET) to retain industrial currency. VET teachers are key actors in VET, and their continuing professional development (CPD) in vocational subjects is central to the currency of VET. This study is situated in Sweden, with a mainly school-based VET system where VET teachers have the main responsibility for students’ school-based and workplace learning, and they typically have a background in an initial occupation which they now teach their students. The study applies a situated learning perspective, with a particular focus on boundary processes between VET schools and working life, and how the modes of identification of engagement, imagination, and alignment are enacted and influence the identity formation and CPD of VET teachers. The findings are based on interviews with 30 Swedish VET teachers. The qualitative study shows how different forms of boundary encounter between VET teachers and working life, brokering of occupational knowledge, and reconstruction of occupational practices at schools provide opportunities for teachers’ CPD and influencing vocational teaching. It is important for the quality of VET teachers’ CPD to include and integrate the different modes of identification, to allow for updating of different aspects of the occupational identity.

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    VET teachers between school and working life: boundary processes enabling continuing professional development
  • 15.
    Andersson, Per
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    VET Teachers’ Continuing Professional Development: barriers and opportunities2015Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    This study concerns the continuing professional development (CPD) of vocational teachers and recognizes the dual professionalism of vocational teachers as having a particular focus on the professional development related to the teachers’ vocational subject areas. The study takes place in Sweden, in VET on upper secondary level. Swedish vocational teachers normally work full-time and spend most of their days at school, and how they meet the demands of contemporary vocational competence differ. They have varying opportunities and options for CPD, and this study explores to what extent and how the vocational teachers cross boundaries between school and other communities of practice to take part in various types of CPD. The vocational teachers’ perceived results of the CPD, as well as barriers and opportunities/motivation for participation are also investigated. The analysis is based on survey data on vocational teachers’ participation in CPD activities and draws on a socio-cultural perspective on practices, identity and learning, and theory concerning adults’ participation in education and barriers towards this.

  • 16.
    Andersson, Per
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    VET teachers’ continuing professional development for industry currency in the initial occupations2018Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Swedish VET was included in extensive school reforms in the early 2010s. However, VET teachers were not particularly involved in these reforms. They have also been relatively invisible in initiatives concerning teachers’ continuing professional development (CPD). Therefore, a project was initiated to explore teachers’ CPD concerning vocational knowledge and industry currency of competence from their initial occupations. The project applied a situated perspective on learning, identity, and boundary relations and processes. There were three parts: Analyses of participation in a national initiative, to let teachers up-date their vocational knowledge, e.g. through practicum in a workplace; a survey, with responses from 886 teachers concerning CPD activities related to their initial occupations; and interviews with 30 teachers.

     

    10% of all VET teachers participated in the national initiative during its two first years. The most common activities identified in the survey were reading vocation-related texts, study visits in workplaces, and work with students’ workplace learning. The survey also showed what values these activities created in terms of teachers’ vocational knowledge, networks, and development of teaching. The interviews showed the value of varying school-workplace boundary processes. Work with workplace learning, study visits, skills competitions, and other industry arrangements, created CPD opportunities and networks.

  • 17.
    Andersson, Per
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    VET Teachers’ Continuing Professional Development: participation, momentum and perceived results2015Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    This study concerns the continuing professional development (CPD) of vocational teachers and recognizes the dual professionalism of vocational teachers as having a particular focus on the professional development related to the teachers’ vocational subject areas. The study takes place in Sweden, in VET on upper secondary level. Swedish vocational teachers normally work full-time and spend most of their days at school, and how they meet the demands of contemporary vocational competence differ. They have varying opportunities and options for CPD, and this study explores to what extent and how the vocational teachers cross boundaries between school and other communities of practice to take part in various types of CPD. The vocational teachers’ perceived results of the CPD, as well as momentum for participation are also investigated. The analysis is based on survey data on vocational teachers’ participation in CPD activities and draws on a socio-cultural perspective on practices, identity and learning, and theory concerning adults’ participation in education and barriers towards this.

  • 18.
    Andersson, Per
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Views on adult educators2010In: BAEA: Becoming Adult Educators in the European Area: Synthesis research report / [ed] Marcella Milana (ed.) et al., Copenhagen: Danish School of Education, Aarhus University , 2010, p. 43-53Chapter in book (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    With an increased interest in and focus on lifelong learning and adult education as a means to economic development, social cohesion and participation in a democracy, comes an enhanced attention on adult educators and their qualifications. In light of this, the aim of Becoming Adult Educators in the European Area (BAEA), results of which are presented in this publication, has been to investigate ways prospective adult educators qualify for their jobs in terms of professional competences beforeentering the profession. Inspired by Bronfenbrenner (1979, 1986), among others, the study is grounded on the premise that individuals exist in multiple, multilayered and interacting contexts, each of which is a domain of social relations and physical contexts. The specific aims of the project have been:

    • To analyse ways in which adult education policies and initial education andtraining opportunities for prospective adult educators affect professionalisation processes in the field of general, vocationally-oriented and liberal adult education;
    • To investigate social and cultural factors that influence the individual formation of initial competences and qualifications of adult educators in the field of general, vocationally-oriented and liberal adult education;
    • To investigate the main factors that influence the construction of a professional identity among prospective adult educators.

    Professional development in this study is defined as a process that involves the acquisition of a specialised body of knowledge, the formation of personal teaching-learning theories grounded on both theoretical principles and the self-interpretation of one‟s own practice, as well as the construction of a professional identity. The study is designed as a comparative study involving four European countries: Denmark, Estonia, Italy and Sweden. The empirical data was collected in the period of 2008-2009, in two steps. In the first step, a literature review of existing informationon adult education and learning and on the structural conditions surrounding the adult educator at work was conducted. The documents analysed included research reports and articles, official descriptions of national education systems, policy papers, laws, by-laws and reports, including national reports to the European Commission on the implementation of lifelong learning strategies at national levels. The second step consisted of narrative interviews which were conducted with a total of sixty-two persons undertaking specialised studies in adult education and learning. Each interview was first analysed in depth following a common frame of reference. Thereafter, cross-case analyses were carried-out nationally, and finally comparisons were made cross-nationally. Though the four countries studied differ in relation to adult education traditions as well as structural and political conditions, the analysis unveils similar trends for all – both in relation to adult education and training and in relation to the qualification of current and prospective adults educators. The empirical evidence brought together underscores that while the quality of adult education represents a topic of concern, it nonetheless underestimates the difficulties embedded in the provision of qualified teaching-learning transactions by adult educators who often enter the profession without specialised pedagogical knowledge. Further, the evidence highlights that professionalism in the field of adult education embodies contrasting views and understandings of its purpose, characterisations and possibilities, not least due to weak social recognition, fragile collective representativeness and individual protection. To better the conditions for the professionalisation of prospective and current adult educators, hence the quality of adult education provisions, more research-based knowledge in the field is needed. At the same time, the European Commission, governments, and other institutional actors and education agencies should:

    • Develop policies and practices aimed at defining and implementing initial education and training paths and appropriate support for further career development in the field of adult education;
    • Recognise adult educators as a professional group with complex cultural and professional competences;
    • Create new opportunities for participation in specialised studies and concrete or virtual communities for professional exchange and mutual enrichment;
    • Organise functional internships;
    • Improve recruitment strategies and working conditions.
  • 19.
    Andersson, Per
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Vocational teachers’ continuing professional development: a survey study2016Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Teachers’ subject knowledge is crucial for the quality of education. Contemporary work life changes rapidly, which challenges vocational education and training (VET) and teachers who need up-to-date vocational competence. This paper concerns VET teachers’ continuing professional development (CPD) related to vocational subjects and basic vocations in which they teach. The aim is to analyse teachers’ participation in varying types of CPD activities. The study draws on a socio-cultural perspective on practice, identity, and learning. Furthermore, the analysis is related to theory concerning adults’ participation in education, which shows how different factors influence participation in CPD. A survey was distributed to 2,000 Swedish VET teachers. The analyses are based on data on participation in different activities, barriers/drivers for participation in these activities, and perceived effects in terms of professional development.

    Results show similar patterns of participation between vocational areas, but with some significant differences between the areas. The variation in vocational areas does not have that much influence on participation. Reading vocational texts is the most common activity among those covered in the study. To read, and to work in the teacher’s basic vocation, are the two activities where variation in doing them could be explained to the highest degree.

  • 20.
    Andersson, Per
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Yrkesdidaktiska utmaningar2014In: Lära till yrkeslärare / [ed] Susanne Köpsén, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2014, 1, p. 217-224Chapter in book (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Detta är ett avslutande och summerande kapitel i en antologi som tar upp centrala kunskapsområden inom det yrkesdidaktiska området.

  • 21.
    Andersson, Per
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Aakre, Bjørn Magne
    Nord University, Norway.
    Editorial: The first issue of NJVET in a new shape2016In: Nordic Journal of Vocational Education and Training, E-ISSN 2242-458X, Vol. 6, no 1, p. i-iiArticle in journal (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Welcome to the Nordic Journal of Vocational Education and Training (NJVET). With this journal, we want to create a forum for research on vocational and professional education and training, with a particular focus on issues at stake for vocational education and training (VET) in the Nordic countries. The journal is published online and open access, and there are no submission or article processing charges.

    This is the first issue of NJVET in its new shape. We have put effort into the renewal of our website, submission and publishing system, guidelines for contributions etc. Altogether we hope that this will contribute to strengthening the quality of our journal, and also of Nordic VET research in general.

    In this first issue we can present contributions from four Nordic countries – Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Nevertheless, relevant contributions from outside the Nordic countries are most welcome! We encourage publication of articles in English, which makes the audience of our research results much broader, but we also offer the opportunity to publish in the Nordic languages. In this issue, articles are published in English, Danish, and Norwegian. You should also note that we make a difference between research articles, which have undergone a double-blind peer-review by at least two anonym viewers, and magazine articles that contain other types of materials, discussions, minor studies of VET etc. The magazine articles are not subject to double-blind peer review, but are reviewed by the editors. We also welcome relevant book reviews. However, this issue does not include any book review.

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  • 22.
    Andersson, Per
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Larson, Anne
    Danish School of Education, Aarhus University.
    Milana, Marcella
    Danish School of Education, Aarhus University.
    Qualification paths of adult educators: A comparative study of Sweden and Denmark2010Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    This paper presents results from a study of the qualification of adult educators in Denmark and Sweden. It describes the role the qualification of adult educators plays in policy, the opportunities for those interested in qualifying as adult educators and the adult educators’ status as a profession. Further, for adult educators to become professional, they need to develop a professional identity, and the formation of this identity is studied through narrative interviews with prospective adult educators. The aim of the study is to understand the qualification paths and professional development of the prospective adult educator through the perspectives of policy, available opportunity structures, and individual trajectories. The study includes general as well as vocational and liberal adult education.

    The result draws on an analysis of policy documents and public information, and 29 narrative interviews with people currently or recently undertaking teacher education at the university or other courses preparing the participants to become adult educators. The approach is here based in the idea that individual motivations for working in the field of adult education and the learning process that leads to the formation of competences, qualifications and professional identity in this field can be better understood by applying a biographical perspective (Horsdal, 2002). In the analysis of narratives/interviews, central guiding concepts were trajectory, and particularly learning trajectory, and identity, inspired by a situated and social learning perspective (Lave & Wenger, 1991; Rogoff, 1995; Wenger 1998). Rogoff’s (1995) model of analysing processes of learning on different, but intertwined, levels has been an inspiration in analysing the qualification paths for adult educators in relation to policies and opportunities for such qualification.

    The main drivers for an increased focus on adult education and training in both countries seem to be the needs of the labour market in light of globalisation and international competition as well as the Lisbon strategy. The study shows that in spite of this increased focus on adult education and training and its importance, in the policy papers there seems to be a lack of interest in the quality of the provision in terms of the education and learning process, including the qualification of the adult educators.

    In relation to the options for those interested in qualifying as adult educators, it is difficult to find courses or education programmes offering initial education and training. Instead, most courses and education programmes either offer in-service or a combination of initial and in-service education and training. Thus, there are few opportunities to acquire the professional knowledge and identity as adult educator before entering the field. This is also indicated through the fact that many of the interviewees have a background as acting (un-qualified) adult educators, before entering professional training. In addition, adult educators to a high degree develop their competencies as adult educators through work. The main conclusions of the study concern the situation that the professional development of adult educators depend on the varying types of learning trajectories they follow, in contexts where the opportunity structures for becoming an adult educator are vague.

  • 23.
    Andersson, Per
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Larson, Anne
    Danish School of Education, Aarhus University.
    Milana, Marcella
    Danish School of Education, Aarhus University.
    Qualification paths of adult educators in Sweden and Denmark2013In: Studies in Continuing Education, ISSN 0158-037X, E-ISSN 1470-126X, Vol. 35, no 1, p. 102-118Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The qualification of adult educators is a central aspect of the quality of adult education. However, within current policy discourses and adult education research on the professional development of prospective adult educators, little attention is paid to teacher qualification when compared to other fields of education and training. In this study, we analyse the qualification paths, or learning trajectories, of prospective adult educators in Sweden and Denmark. The analysis is based on narrative interviews with 29 students in training to become adult educators. The career paths of adult educators are often long and winding roads. Becoming an adult educator could be their primary desire, but it could also be their ‘Plan B’, a second choice. Individual motives and external demands interact in the professionalisation process. A shift in focus from teaching subject and methods to teaching context and the relation to the learners is part of the professional development. Finally, we argue that both academic studies and hands-on work in the adult education community are crucial parts of the adult educator’s qualification path.

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  • 24.
    Fejes, Andreas
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Identity formation among vocational teachers: A sociocultural approach2011In: Paper presented at the conference of the ESREA research network on working life and learning research, 2011, p. 1-15Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Vocational teachers’ prior occupational experience is construed as that which will guarantee high-quality vocational education, at the same time as they are no longer required to have formal teaching qualifications in order to be employed as teachers in Sweden. This raises the issue of vocational teacher’s preparedness to teach their vocational subject. Drawing on a socio-cultural understanding of identity, and based on twenty semi-structured interviews with vocational teachers in different subject areas, this articles deals with vocational teacher’s identity formation through boundary crossing between the community of practice of the prior occupation, the occupation as a teacher and the community of teacher training. The analysis illustrates how teachers who manage to balance a teacher identity with an occupational identity by keeping their participation across the different communities seem to be those who are best prepared to teach their vocational subject. As many of those we interviewed do not manage to keep such a balance, we argue for the need of in-service training for vocational teachers so that they are able to keep up to date and continue to participate in the community of their former occupation.

  • 25.
    Fejes, Andreas
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Vocational teachers' identity formation through boundary crossing2014In: Journal of Education and Work, ISSN 1363-9080, E-ISSN 1469-9435, Vol. 27, no 3, p. 265-283Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Vocational teachers’ prior occupational experiences are construed as those that will guarantee high-quality teaching in vocational education, although individuals are no longer required to have formal teaching qualifications to be employed as teachers in Sweden. This lack of strict requirements raises the issue of the preparedness of vocational teachers to teach their subject matter. Drawing on a socio-cultural understanding of identity, and based on twenty semi-structured interviews with vocational teachers in different subject areas, this article addresses vocational teachers’ identity formation through boundary crossing; these individuals cross boundaries between the community of the prior occupation’s practice, the teaching occupation and the community of teacher training. The analysis illustrates how teachers who manage to balance their teacher identities with their occupational identities by maintaining their participation in the different communities seem to be the best prepared to teach their vocational subjects. As many of those we interviewed do not manage to keep such a balance, we argue for the need for in-service training for vocational teachers to help them keep up to date with, participate in and continue to belong to the communities of their former occupations.

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  • 26.
    Gustavsson, Maria
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Sociology. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Linköping University, HELIX Competence Centre.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Inledning2018In: Yrkesutbildning – mellan skola och arbetsliv / [ed] Maria Gustavsson och Susanne Köpsén, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2018, 1, p. 13-22Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 27.
    Gustavsson, Maria
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Sociology. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Linköping University, HELIX Competence Centre.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Yrkesutbildning – mellan skola och arbetsliv2018 (ed. 1)Book (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Gymnasial yrkesutbildning utgör en viktig del av det svenska utbildningssystemet och har ett komplext samhälls- och utbildningsuppdrag. Arbetslivet och skolan kan ha skilda förväntningar och målsättningar som ibland är svårförenliga. Yrkesutbildningarna ska å ena sidan svara mot arbetsmarknadens behov av yrkeskunskaper och leda till arbete. De ska å andra sidan även ge en bred allmänutbildning för att främja ett livslångt lärande. Boken belyser balansakten mellan skola och arbetsliv: hur yrkeslärare, elever och handledare på arbetsplatser anpassar och balanserar de politiska kraven och det mångsidiga samhällsuppdraget på lokal nivå. Boken ger ett helhetsperspektiv på gymnasial yrkesutbildning och beskriver bland annat

    • yrkeslärares och handledares pedagogiska och didaktiska utmaningar
    • elevers strategier för lärande på arbetsplatsen
    • behovet av samverkan mellan olika kategorier lärare för ämnesintegrerad och yrkesrelaterad undervisning
    • yrkeslärares behov av kompetensutveckling i sitt yrkesämne.

    Boken bidrar till praktiknära kunskap om gymnasial yrkesutbildning och hur balansakten mellan utbildning och arbetsliv kan förstås och utvecklas. Den är skriven för blivande och redan aktiva yrkeslärare, men vänder sig också till rektorer och skolledare som har ansvar för att samverkan mellan skola och arbetsliv fungerar i yrkesutbildningen.

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  • 28.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences. Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education.
    Fackets nya utmaningar - förutsättningar och villkor för lärande och förändring på den lokala nivån i facket.2003In: Mimers årliga forskarkonferens,2003, 2003Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 29.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    From revolution to retreat. Learning processes in a local trade union at the workplace level.2007In: The Second Nordic Conference on Adult Learning. Meaning, Relevance and Variation, 2007Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 30.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences. Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education.
    Frågan är fri, men kan den ställas?2003In: IT för idealister, Stockholm: Bilda Idé och Kommunikation , 2003, p. 54-67Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 31.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Frågan är fri, men kan den ställas?2003In: IT för idealister, Stockholm: Bilda Idé & Kommunikation , 2003, 1, p. 54-67Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 32.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Från revolution till reträtt: Lärande i en fackförenings vardag2008 (ed. 1)Book (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Under tre års tid följde Susanne Köpsén det fackliga styrelsearbetet på ett industriföretag med drygt hundra anställda. Hon studerade hur styrelsens ansträngningar att utveckla den fackliga verksamheten kan relateras till lärande, en ständigt pågående lärprocess som tar sig olika uttryck över tid. Det rör sig om lärande på egen hand, men inom ramen för en social rörelse med både traditioner att bevara och krav på förändring.Ytterst handlar avhandlingen om lärande i vardagen. Vad är det för utmaningar de fackliga företrädarna på en arbetsplats möter? Hur gör de för att klara av dessa? Hur hanterar de kraven på nya kunskaper? Hur ser förutsättningarna ut? Den här studien försöker svara på dessa frågor.

  • 33.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences. Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education.
    Från revolution till reträtt: Lärande i en fackförenings vardag2008Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    The trade union at the local workplace is considered the most important arena for developing the strength of trade unions. Contemporary changes in working life mean new challenges to the trade union, and especially to the local trade union units at the workplaces. Learning is needed to maintain the strength and the capacity of the trade unions. Local trade union boards and representatives are expected to have the capability to learn on their own. The aim of this study is to investigate learning within a local trade union board at a workplace. An ethnographic study of an inexperienced trade union board has been carried out during three years. A sociocultural perspective is used to analyse the trade union board’s work, the learning processes that are generated and how the board members’ participation and pracitice are changed. From a pragmatist perspective the local trade union board’s attempts to deal with everyday challenges are interpreted as solving problems. It is shown that the board’s different ways of defining the situation are of significant importance. Three qualitative different phases of the local trade union board practice have been identified: the revolution, the renewal and the retreat. The investigation shows the importance of access to and use of the sociocultural knowledge and resources outside the local trade union. The board’s members’ definitions of the situation are influenced by the trade union experience and knowledge that they appropriate in participating in other trade union practices. The study also shows the importance of how the trade union work is distributed as it generates different learning processes according to how duties are divided. Solving problems together with trade union members at the workplace and together with other trade union practices shape learning processes in other communities of the trade union movement. The results of the study indicate that the demands on learning put on the local trade union boards are too overpowering. The local trade union boards cannot be expected to, on their own, develop the knowledge and the power that are needed to tackle the everyday challenges at the workplace. Local trade union learning is a matter to the trade union movement as a whole. Power, knowledge and learning are interdependent.

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  • 34.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    How vocational teachers describe their vocational teacher identity2014In: Journal of Vocational Education and Training, ISSN 1363-6820, E-ISSN 1747-5090, Vol. 66, no 2, p. 194-211Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Given the current demands of Swedish vocational education and the withdrawal of the requirement for formal teacher competence in vocational subject teachers, the aim of this article is to develop knowledge of what it means to be a vocational subject teacher in an upper secondary school, i.e., how vocational subject teachers describe their vocational teacher identity. Drawing on a sociocultural perspective, this study analysed data from 22 interviews. The vocational subject teachers describe their relationship with students and the fostering work of teaching for studies, life and work as distinctive characteristics of vocational teacher identity. The fostering work is focused on students’ behaviour, i.e., the relational and normative aspects of a social practice. The study results suggest that the identity of vocational teachers includes guiding students towards memberships in various social practices. The benefit of both high-quality teacher competence and vocational competence in vocational teachers is discussed

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  • 35.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Inledning – att lära till yrkeslärare2019In: Lära till yrkeslärare / [ed] Susanne Köpsén, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2019, 2, p. 13-18Chapter in book (Other academic)
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  • 36.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Kunskap och lärande i facket2009In: Utbildning och Demokrati, ISSN 1102-6472, E-ISSN 2001-7316, Vol. 18, no 3, p. 69-90Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The theme of the article is knowledge and learning within the Swedish workers’ trade union movement. The aim of the article is to describe how the movement have viewed learning and schooling historically, and to discuss the current point of view. Knowledge useful to the movement has always been seen as the most valuable. The interpretation of what knowledge that is and how it best is learned has varied. Today trade unions at the workplaces are expected to have the capability to formulate needs of knowledge and to conduct learning independently. The everyday work in two local trade union boards have been studied and analysed by socio cultural theory of learning in order understand what learning the everyday activities shape. The article presents important aspects of the result. Contemporary changes in working life mean continuous demands of new knowledge. The local trade unions studied cannot handle these demands of learning on their own. It’s discussed as overpowering demands of learning.

  • 37.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Learning for renewal. Learning in a trade union practice.2011In: Journal of Workplace Learning, ISSN 1366-5626, E-ISSN 1758-7859, Vol. 23, no 1, p. 20-34Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    AbstractPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze learning in a Swedish trade union board in aworkplace, according to contemporary challenges in working life and conditions, of decentralizationand local independency of trade union work and learning.Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on ethnographic studies of two Swedishlocal trade union boards. The aim is to investigate the everyday activities of the board and the learningprocesses that were generated. This paper focuses on the study of an experienced trade union board.Theory stressing the situated character of learning is used to understand the changes in participationand the trade union practice. The trade union board’s practice is interpreted as solving problems withreference to pragmatism.Findings – The paper finds that the experienced board is competent and manages to independentlysolve unfamiliar but traditional problems, processes of learning are generated, but it fails to developthe competence and update the practice required for the complex and challenging problems of today onits own.Practical implications – The local trade union board does not manage to develop the competencegiving it the power to independently handle the trade union issues significant for the future of thetrade union members and the workplace on its own.Originality/value – This context of learning has not been studied before. It is a type of workplacelearning, but part of a social movement.

     

  • 38.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences. Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education.
    Local Trade Union Learning - a participatory perspective on a distance education2000Report (Other academic)
  • 39.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences. Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education.
    Lokalt fackligt lärande - ett deltagarperspektiv på en distansutbildning1999Report (Other academic)
  • 40.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Lära till yrkeslärare2019Collection (editor) (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    För yrkeslärare krävs dubbla kompetenser, både yrkeskunskap och kunskap som hör till läraryrket. Lära till yrkeslärare introducerar blivande yrkeslärare inför denna utmaning. Det är den första bok som beskriver utvecklingen till yrkeslärare med ett yrkesdidaktiskt fokus. Boken behandlar grundläggande kunskaper för yrkeslärare motsvarande lärarprogrammens utbildningsvetenskapliga kärna. 

    Författarna beskriver kraven på yrkeslärares kunskaper och villkoren för undervisning i yrkesämne och lärande av yrkeskunskaper. De presenterar olika typer av överväganden som en yrkeslärare behöver göra, till exempel av innehållet i undervisningen, hur och var under­visningen kan genomföras, val av material och verktyg med mera, samt hur elevers lärande kan stimuleras. Frågor som rör samspelet mellan undervisning i skolan och lärande på arbetsplatser uppmärksammas också. Ett kapitel handlar om organisation och styrning av olika former av yrkesutbildning.

    I denna andra upplaga av boken har innehållet uppdaterats med resultat från ny svensk forskning om hur det är att bli och vara yrkeslärare, och nya kapitel har tillkommit. Målgruppen är breddad och boken vänder sig nu till alla som ska börja undervisa,eller redan undervisar, i yrkesämnen inom olika yrkesutbildningar,till exempel i gymnasieskola, vuxenutbildning eller yrkeshögskola.

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  • 41.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Lära till yrkeslärare: en introduktion2014Collection (editor) (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    För yrkeslärare krävs dubbla kompetenser, både yrkeskunskap och kunskap som hör till läraryrket. Lära till yrkeslärare introducerar blivande yrkeslärare till denna utmaning. Boken är den första bok som handlar om utveckling till yrkeslärare med ett yrkesdidaktiks fokus. Den behandlar grundläggande kunskaper för yrkeslärare motsvarande lärarprogrammens utbildningsvetenskapliga kärna. Författarna beskriver kraven på yrkeslärares kunskaper och villkoren för undervisning i yrkesämne och lärande av yrkeskunskaper. De presenterar de olika typer av överväganden som en lärare behöver göra, t ex av innehållet i undervisningen, hur undervisningen kan genomföras och hur elevernas lärande kan stimuleras. Frågor som rör samspelet mellan undervisning i skolan och lärande på arbetsplatser uppmärksammas också. Ett kapitel handlar om skolans  organisation och styrning.

  • 42.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences. Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education.
    Motdrag i förort - ett folkbildningsprojekt i ett mångkulturellt bostadsområde1999Report (Other academic)
  • 43.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Motdrag i förort: Ett folkbildningsprojekt i ett mångkulturellt bostadsområde1999Report (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 44.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Om fackligt lärande: En etnografisk studie av en fackföreningsstyrelses arbete2003Licentiate thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    The prerequisites for local trade unions have changed in later years. Con-temporary changes in working-life raise new and important questions for the local boards to deal with. Changes of labour legislation anddecentralisation within the Swedish trade union movement have led to new tasks and greater responsibilities for the local trade unions. The role of learning in the local trade union-s attempts to deal with contemporary challenges is the focus of this thesis. The presented case-study aims at understanding the conditions and circumstances that shape the kind of learning that takes place in the board of a local branch of a Swedish trade union. The importance of the everyday context for learning is a fundamental approach to the study. Theories stressing the situated character of learning have been used for understand-ing the activities of the shop stewards participating in the social practice of local trade union work. The shop-stewards- attempts to deal with the challenges have been inter-preted as problem-solving. A pattern of three qualitatively different ways of solving problems has been identified. The shop stewards manage well prob-lems concerning the traditional trade union work, i. e. interpreting the legal framework in laws, agreements and instructions. There is no need for change. The second kind of problem-solving is about new problems within an area familiar to the shop-stewards. The shop-stewards also manage to solve this kind of problems. The shop-stewards do not manage the third kind, the new and complex questions where the legal framework is missing, e.g. outsourcing, competence development and bad working conditions as an effect of lean production. This third kind of problems can be seen as questions for destiny to the trade union and its members. Learning in local trade unions is not just a local matter. In order to understand the local trade union board-s difficulties to deal with the con-temporary challenges one must consider the aspects of power and relations to the counterpart, the employer. Decentralisation of trade union-work has changed the prerequisites for the local trade unions. New technique, ways of organising work and globalisation of production and ownership are examples of new and important questions for trade unions to deal with. These changed prerequisites concern the Swedish trade union movement as a whole.

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    Om fackligt lärande: En etnografisk studie av en fackföreningsstyrelses arbete
  • 45.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    (O)möjligt uppdrag?: Om makt kunskap och lärande i fackets vardag2009 (ed. 1)Book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 46.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Overpowering demands on learning: Learning in a local trade union at the workplace level2008In: European Conference on Educational Research, ECER, From Teaching to Learning, 10-12 sept 2008, University of Gothenburg, 2008, p. 12-Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 47.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences. Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education.
    Söka kunskap och lära på egen hand. Makt och vanmakt på den lokala nivån inom fackföreningsrörelsen2005In: Nordisk Pedagogik, ISSN 0901-8050, E-ISSN 1504-2995, Vol. vol 25, p. 258-272Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [sv]

    Lokala fackliga företrädare möter idag nya utmaningar. De fackliga frågorna är komplicerade och ställer krav på ny facklig kompetens. Förändringar inom fackföreningsrörelsen innebär att den lokala nivån inom LO-förbunden förväntas agera mer självständigt. Samtidigt finns en utbildningsfilosofisk strategi att fackliga företrädare skall söka kunskap och lära på egen hand. I en etnografisk studie följdes lärandet i en fackföreningsstyrelse (Köpsén, 2003). Den lokala fackföreningsstyrelsen är erfaren och kunnig och har inflytande över traditionella fackliga frågor. Studien visar på styrelsens svårigheter att lära på egen hand när problem och kunskapsbehov är komplexa. Den lokala fackföreningen kan inte hantera fackets nya utmaningar. Vi kan tala om vanmakt kring fackets framtida ödesfrågor.

  • 48.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    The vocational educational practice - VET teachers' relatings to students and the fostering doings and sayings in teaching2012Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 49.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Studies in Adult, Popular and Higher Education. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    Vardagslärande i facket - konflikter med arbetsgivaren och kollision mellan identiteter2006Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 50.
    Köpsén, Susanne
    Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Adult Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Yrkeslärarens uppdrag mellan skola och arbete2018In: Yrkesutbildning - mellan skola och arbetsliv / [ed] Maria Gustavsson och Susanne Köpsén, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2018, 1, p. 45-63Chapter in book (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Yrkeslärare utgör en viktig länk mellan skola och arbetsliv, men kunskapen om de utmaningar och balansakter som detta kan innebära för yrkesläraren är tämligen begränsad. Att yrkeslärares arbetsuppgifter och olika uppdrag i skärningspunkten mellan skola och arbetsliv ställer krav på dubbla kompetenser, är inte ofta uppmärksammat. Detta kapitel syftar till att lyfta fram yrkeslärarens roll som viktig aktör inom yrkesutbildning samt didaktiska särdrag i yrkeslärares planering och genomförande av undervisning.

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