Status
Underway since October 2005
Scheduled for completion in September 2011
PhD Student
Barbara Duc
Partner institutions
University of Geneva, Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Laurent Filliettaz
Project description
In our thesis project, we are interested in VET apprenticeships as a means of facilitating the transition from school to the labour market and preparing young people to begin a career. We seek to gain a better grasp of the learning and professional socialisation process within this context. In order to achieve this, we propose to focus on the apprentice’s participation in the multiple communities in which he/she is involved over the course of the VET apprenticeship. In Switzerland, these VET apprenticeships fall within the scope of combined school/work-based VET programmes where periods of teaching at a VET school are alternated with working periods within a host company. We resort to audiovisual data which document the actual activities in which apprentices participate at the two training locations. By analysing the verbal and non-verbal interactions which make up these activities, we seek to highlight the way in which selected interactions and training situations are organised, focussing in particular on the various forms of participation and roles assumed by apprentices, as well as on their progression or lack thereof in these situations. We attempt to show the various types of participation across different timeframes, the study of which enables us to reflect on the professional socialisation mechanisms at work in vocational training.
Method
Qualitative, audio/video data, interviews, analysis of interactions
Publications
Filliettaz, L., de Saint-Georges, I. & Duc, B. (sous presse). Reformulation, re-sémiotisation et trajectoires d’apprentissage en formation professionnelle initiale : le cas de l’enseignement du giclage du mortier en maçonnerie. In A. Rabatel (Ed.),
Les reformulations pluri-sémiotiques en contexte de formation. Besançon : Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté.
Filliettaz, L., de Saint-Georges, I. & Duc, B. (sous presse). Skiing, Cheese Fondue and Swiss Watches: Analogical Discourse in Vocational Training Interactions. In
Vocations and Learning.
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Filliettaz, L., de Saint-Georges, I. & Duc, B. (à paraître). Pratiques coopératives, productions langagières et apprentissage des métiers. In D. Vernant, M.-D. Popelard & A. Wall (Ed.),
Les pratiques coopératives : constitution des agents, constitution des œuvres. Paris : Vrin.
de Saint-Georges, I. & Duc, B. (2009). Trajectoires situées d’apprentissage et transformations de l’expérience en formation professionnelle initiale. In
Actes du colloque Recherches et Pratiques en Didactique Professionnelle, Dijon, 2-4 décembre 2009.
Duc, B. & de Saint-Georges, I. (2009).Développer l’autonomie dans un dispositif de formation professionnelle initiale : les ressources des situations de travail. Bulletin Suisse de Linguistique Appliquée, 90, 99-124.
Filliettaz, L., de Saint-Georges, I. & Duc, B. (2009). Interactions et dynamiques de participation en formation professionnelle initiale. In M. Durand & L. Filliettaz (Ed.),
Travail et formation des adultes (pp. 95-124). Paris : Presses Universitaires de France.
Duc, B. (2008). « Tu veux essayer ? Trajectoire de participation et trajectoire identitaire d’un apprenant au sein d’une entreprise ». In L. Filliettaz, I. de Saint-Georges & B. Duc,
« Vos mains sont intelligentes ! » : interactions en formation professionnelle initiale (pp. 241-274). Université de Genève : Cahiers de la Section des Sciences de l’éducation, 117.
Filliettaz, L., de Saint-Georges, I. & Duc, B. (2008). « Vos mains sont intelligentes ! » : interactions en formation professionnelle initiale. Université de Genève : Cahiers de la Section des Sciences de l’éducation, 117.
Filliettaz, L., de Saint-Georges, I. & Duc, B. (2008). « Mais vous tapez comme un pharmacien ! » : analogies en formation professionnelle initiale. In L. Filliettaz & M.-L. Schubauer-Leoni (Ed.),
Processus interactionnels et situations éducatives (pp. 117-158). Bruxelles : De Boeck.
de Saint-Georges, I. & Duc, B. (2007). Order, duration and rhythm: tuning to complex temporal arrangements in workplace learning. In G. Morello (Ed.), Retroscapes and Futurescapes – Temporal tensions in organizations. Actes du colloque 5th Palermo International Conference on Social Time, CD-Rom.
Duc, B. (2007). Apprentissage, participation à l’activité et identité professionnelle. In P. Marquet et al. (Ed.),
Actes du congrès AREF 2007, Strasbourg, CD-Rom.
Filliettaz, L., de Saint-Georges, I. & Duc, B. (2006). Ski, cheese fondue and Swiss watches : the rhetoric of analogical discourse in vocational training interactions.
Actes du colloque European Congress on Educational Research, Genève, septembre 2006. Consulté le 20.05.2009
ici.
Contact
Barbara Duc