Principal speaker
Professor Paul Olry
Vocational Didactics: Work, Learning and Conceptualization
Prof Paul Olry Pr Training and Education Sciences, School of Engineers AgroSup,
University of Burgundy, Dijon, France
Wednesday, 18 March 2020 4pm-5:30pm in M10_5.04 with video link up to G23_3.01
RSVP by Friday 13 March to m.rautio@griffith.edu.au
Cost: Free
The object of the talk is to present the vocational didactics and develop on one of its salient features: the conceptualization in action. Vocational didactic is part of the vocational training of adults and young workers. It is directed towards both research and action. It comprises a process defined by principles, concepts and methods to i) identify what may be learnt in the work situation, ii) integrate how to learn it into the working conditions or by a new workplace or workplace change, and iii) design a pathway to learn in these situations. Thus, it is a technology defined as the organized mobilization of knowledge to solve particular identified problems.
It addresses the question: How can educational pathways be designed in such a way as to integrate both work situations and training situations? The goal of vocational didactic is, therefore, to generate methodological tools intended for learners and trainers, whose roles are to cooperate closely to design and implement educational procedures, situation and pathways in the field of knowledge. In action, it focuses on how training pathways and situations can be designed based on and in reference to work situations. Through using collective reflexivity, Vocational Didactics attempts to act upon and optimize the learning potential of work situations.
The talk elaborates the theoretical framework of vocational didactics and give two case studies taken in the healthcare relationship (i.e. in physiotherapy) and in the social work that engages with parent who have been identified as abusive parents.
Biography
Professor Paul Olry is based in the Training and Education Sciences section within the School of Engineers AgroSup, Burgundy University in Dijon, France. His scientific activity focuses on apprenticeships in professional situations. He is, therefore, interested in the conditions for learning at the workplace and in the training situations. He studies four main topics: i) vocational didactics as a vocational training technology: the conditions of its application according to the work situation (i.e. production of goods, service relations, care, etc.); ii) the design of adult training systems and modalities and their conditions in various organisations (public organisations, associations, companies, etc.); iii) the modalities and formats of alternation (arrangements, mediation, devices) as conditions for the development of the workers skills; and iv) developments in the training profession with regard to the conditions (organisational, institutional, pedagogical, etc.) for implementing vocational training policies. His current work aims to produce a theorization of the notion of vocational transmission based on the links between analysis of activity and production of meanings of learning in, through and about work.
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