In-service training as cognitive apprenticeship

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The issue of this paper is to present and discuss a project for in-service training of some teachers employed within advanced vocational education (AVE), part of higher education in Finland. The political visions of an increased proportion of people with higher education, not only in Finland but in the Western world as a whole, have contributed to teachers encountering with new groups of students with non-academic backgrounds. These students have been accepted for studies but an increasing pr...

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Authors: Berthén, D; Eriksson, I; Lindberg, V

• Publication status: Not published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publication date: 2008-01-01
• Language: English
• Keywords: advanced vocational education; in-service training; cognitive apprenticeship; writing; higher education; reading
• Subjects: Education; Teaching and teacher education