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Context: In Switzerland, about two-thirds of young people start dual vocational education and training (VET) at around 15 years of age. Research shows that they are challenged in many ways during this phase of their lives and are therefore particularly vulnerable. Thus, supporting the transition of apprentices from school to the workplace environment requires careful attention. Trust is predicated upon the individual's willingness to be vulnerable, and as such enterprises which offer VET to young learners must consider how they structure trust-building processes into their learning cultures.  Method: A case study approach was adopted to investigate apprenticeship provision in the largest telecommunications company in Switzerland. Over the course of one year, 24 semi-structured interviews and observations were conducted with apprentices, coaches and managers. The qualitative data were processed through condensation, building categories and paraphrasing, by following Bohnsack's formulative interpretation method.  Findings: The initial investigation of the learning culture within the company found that a cooperative culture of trust is crucial for educational success. In this context, the way relationships were formed in the workplace was particularly significant. Expressed through constructive feedback and error culture, learners were supported to take risks and learn from their mistakes. Active participation was also highly valued, leading to a felt sense of recognition and belonging to the organisation.  Conclusion: Trustful relationships within the apprenticeship proved to be a foundational conviction in the company, and while it must be noted that trust is not the sole predictor of success in VET, the learning culture facilitated by trust-building processes afforded opportunities for apprentices to take ownership of their own learning, through negotiated outcomes; leading to creative autonomy and contributions that were to the benefit of the enterprise. 

In this article, [the author] argues that the goals of education need to be reframed to prioritize not only academic learning, but also social, emotional, and ethical competencies. Surveying the current state of research in the fields of socialemotional education, character education, and school-based mental health in the United States, [he] suggests that social-emotional skills, knowledge, and dispositions provide the foundation for participation in a democracy and improved quality of life. [The author] discusses contemporary best practices and policy in relation to creating safe and caring school climates, home-school partnerships, and a pedagogy informed by social-emotional and ethical concerns. He also emphasizes the importance of scientifically sound measures of social-emotional and ethical learning, and advocates for action research partnerships between researchers and practioners to develop authentic methods of evaluation. [The author] notes the gulf that exists between the evidence-based guidelines for social-emotional learning, which are being increasingly adopted at the state level, and what is taught in schools of education and practiced in preK-12 schools. Finally, he asserts that social, emotional, ethical, and academic education is a human right that all students are entitled to, and argues that ignoring this amounts to a social injustice. (DIPF/Orig.).

This essay collection explores how democratic governments construct public reason -- that is, the forms of evidence and argument used in making state decisions accountable to citizens. The term public reason as used here is not simply a matter of constructing principled arguments that respect the norms of democratic deliberation. My objective is to investigate what societies do in practice when they claim to be reasoning in the public interest. Reason, from this perspective, comprises the institutional practices, discourses, techniques and instruments through which governments claim legitimacy in an era of potentially unbounded risks -- physical, political, and moral. Those legitimation efforts, in turn, depend on citizens' acceptance of the forms of reasoning that governments offer. Included here therefore is an inquiry into the conditions that lead citizens of democratic societies to accept policy justification as being reasonable. These modes of public knowing, or 'civic epistemologies,' are integral to the constitution of political culture as described in this book. Methodologically, the book is grounded in the field of science and technology studies (STS). It uses in-depth qualitative studies of legal and political practices to shed light on the cultural construction of public reason and the reasoning political subject. It employs comparative analysis to illuminate the diverse ways in which science and expertise are factored into democratic decisionmaking; and it illustrates how STS scholarship can use comparison without falling into rigidly structural analysis. The collection as a whole contributes to democratic theory, legal studies, comparative politics, and ethnographies of modernity, as well as STS. (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku).

Der vorliegende Artikel beschäftigt sich mit dem Zusammenhang zwischen Wissenstransfer und Selbststudium bzw. eigenverantwortlichem Arbeiten und Lernen mit Unterstützung durch Lerntechnologien. Gegenstand der empirischen Studie bilden qualitative Erhebungen bei Bachelorstudierenden des Fachbereichs Ernährung an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Wien. (DIPF/Orig.). This article deals with the connection between knowledge transfer and self-study or independent work and learning supported by learning technologies. The subject of the empirical study is a qualitative survey of bachelor students of the nutrition department at the Vienna University of Teacher Education. (DIPF/Orig.).

Außerunterrichtliche Angebote bilden einen Schwerpunkt in Ganztagsschulen. In der Ganztagsdebatte werden weitreichende Erwartungen einer Öffnung von Schule an sie adressiert. Die Angebote sollen etwas anderes als \"Unterricht\" bieten und sozialpädagogischen Prinzipien wie Partizipation, Freiwilligkeit, Lebensweltorientierung und Alltagsbildung Raum geben. Anders als die standardisierte Forschung zu Prozessqualität und Wirkungen von Ganztagsschule ermöglichen die ethnographischen Beobachtungen aus dem DFG-Projekt JenUs eine Analyse des Binnengeschehens außerunterrichtlicher Angebote. Im Beitrag werden Ergebnisse einer Typenbildung zur Lernkultur vorgestellt, deren tertium comparationis der Fokus auf den Umgang mit der Sache ist. Leitend für die Typenbildung ist die Modulation des Umgangs mit der Sache im Spannungsfeld von \"etwas lernen\" und \"Spaß haben\". Die Typen werden in Bezug auf ihre Nähe und Ferne zu Formelementen von Unterricht und sozialpädagogischen Angebotslogiken diskutiert. Insgesamt soll damit ein Beitrag zur Forschung über die Diversifizierung der schulischen Lernkultur geleistet werden. (DIPF/Orig.). Extra-curricular activities are central for all-day schools and related to expectations of an opening of school. Their practice is intended to offer something other than \"lessons\" and to give space to principles such as participation orientation towards the Life-world. In contrast to quantitative research on the process quality and effects of all-day schools, our ethnographic observations from the DFG founded project JenUs allow an analysis of the inner logic of extra-curricular activities. The article presents the results of a type construction on learning culture whose tertium comparationis is focused on dealing with the subject in learning. Modulations in the field of tension between \"learning something\" and \"having fun\" are the guiding principles for type construction. The types are discussed with regard to their proximity and distance to the formation of teaching or after school programs. The overall aim is to contribute to research on the diversification of the school learning culture. (DIPF/Orig.).

Recent developments in our educational system, foremost the rise of all-day schools, make it possible to establish the new field of historical monument pedagogy. This article seeks to illuminate the evolution, conditions and merits of this project as well as the problems associated with its implementation from different perspectives. As a conceptually integrated part of the all­ day school monument pedagogy is bound to become a catalyst for the transfer of cultural knowledge and permanent values. Consequently, it offers various opportunities not only in all-day school education but also in lifelong learning. (DIPF/Orig.).

Durch den sozioökonomischen und technologischen Strukturwandel kam und kommt es zu veränderten Anforderungen an die Innovationsfähigkeit und das Lernpotenzial von Unternehmen und Organisationen. Da die modernen Arbeitssituationen und -prozesse immer weniger simulierbar sind, wird Wissen zur wichtigsten Produktivkraft in einer stark kundenorientierten Welt. Mitarbeiter benötigen berufliche Handlungskompetenz, die durch formelle Lernprozesse nicht erworben werden kann, weshalb wiederum informelle Lernprozesse einen enormen Bedeutungszuwachs erfahren. Eine lernförderliche Unternehmenskultur rückt dabei in den Mittelpunkt. Dennis Barkmin untersucht in seiner vorliegenden Studie empirisch die Lernkultur in Unternehmen der pharmazeutischen Industrie, da diese in extremem Maße davon abhängig sind, innovativ zu arbeiten. Das Buch zeigt nicht nur interessante Ansätze für Wissenschaftler auf, die sich mit Lernkultur und innerbetrieblichen Lernprozessen befassen, sondern stellt auch eine wertvolle Hilfe dar für Personal- und Weiterbildungsverantwortliche, die in ihrem Unternehmen die vorhandene Lernkultur bewerten und interne Lernprozesse effektiv gestalten möchten.

Few countries in the world have introduced media education into their curriculums. Montenegro became one of them in 2009, when \"media literacy\" was introduced as an optional subject for 16 and 17 year old students of Gymnasium high schools. This article presents the findings of the first and only research conducted so far on media education in Montenegro. It is a national case study which examines the potential of media education to change the school culture and accelerate education system reform towards embracing the new digital education paradigm in the future. The focus is on the results of research conducted through in-depth interviews with media literacy teachers all over the country. Despite the many challenges, all teachers identify the potential of media education to strengthen some of the key competences of the students and to improve their motivation and academic performance. They also identify potential to change positively school culture by transforming teachers into \"cultural mediators\" (Morcellini, 2007) and by supporting the formation of a \"participative culture\" (Jenkins & Kelley, 2013) in schools. This research recommends focusing education reform on spreading the media education pedagogy to the entire curriculum in order to embrace the new digital education paradigm in the future. (author's abstract).

Better skills policies help build economic resilience, boost employment and reinforce social cohesion. The OECD Skills Strategy provides countries with a framework to analyse their skills strengths and challenges. Each OECD Skills Strategy diagnostic report reflects a set of skills challenges identified by broad stakeholder engagement and OECD comparative evidence while offering concrete examples of how other countries have tackled similar skills challenges. These reports tackle questions such as: How can countries maximise their skills potential? How can they improve their performance in developing relevant skills, activating skills supply and using skills effectively? What is the benefit of a whole-of-government approach to skills? How can governments build stronger partnerships with employers, trade unions, teachers and students to deliver better skills outcomes? OECD Skills Strategy diagnostic reports provide new insights into these questions and help identify the core components of successful skills strategies. This report is part of the OECD’s ongoing work on building effective national and local skills strategies.

This article describes experiences of 610 Dutch students and 241 students from other European countries who studied at least three months abroad within the framework of an international exchange program. The Dutch students went to a university in another European country and the foreign students went to a Dutch university. By means of a questionnaire students' perceptions of three main characteristics of the university learning environment were measured concerning the home university, the host university and the ideal learning environment. The students were also asked about their way of learning at the home university and at the host university, in particular about the extent of constructive learning and reproductive learning. Evidence was found for the influence of aspects of the learning environment on the two learning approaches; e.g., a learning environment characterized as student-oriented discourages reproductive learning and promotes constructive learning, especially when conceptual and epistemological relations within the learning domain are stressed. The learning environment preferences of the students were partly related to their learning orientations at the home university, but they were strikingly similar for students from different countries. There was a strong preference for those learning environment aspects that promote constructive learning. (HRK/text adopted).