This article focuses on two examples of interactive research (IR) in vocational education and training. IR is a process which brings together practitioners and researchers with the aim to implement an innovation. This innovation in the first project meant to create a hybrid learning environment; in the second it supported introducing digital media in a training centre. The process of innovating thereby turned into a learning process for all concerned persons: original ideas of the concerned concepts matured, boundaries between research and practice were crossed and new, sometimes surprising ideas for further development emanated. These experiences point attention towards the processes of research and innovation instead of only documenting results in the sense of summative evaluation. They also show that IR requires a certain framework in order to enable important learning cycles.
Keywords: interactive research, collaborative research, cooperation of learning venues, information and communication technology
Bibliographical notes:Aimée Hoeve is senior researcher at Research Centre Quality of Learning of the HAN University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands. Her research interests focus on workplace learning, vocational expertise, design of hybrid learning environments and co-makership VET and business partners.Pekka Kämäräinen and Joanna Burchert are senior researchers at the Institute of Technology and Education (ITB) at the University of Bremen, Germany. Three of their research interests are workplace learning, the use of digital media in VET and the work of trainers and teachers in VET.
The book consists of 14 articles written by 24 authors. The studies cover 12 countries Australia, China, European Union, Korea, Kuwait, Laos, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States, and Vietnam -and give insights into different institutional contexts. The aim of the book is to highlight the current phase of internationalization in the field of vocational education and training (VET) and how it is reflected in VET-related research.The chapters are grouped in four parts that are presented as thematic blocks. The first part explores the changes that have occurred in the development of VET due to globalization and neo-liberal market policies. The second part analyzes processes
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