Gendered Vocational Identities - Female Students' Strategies for Identity Formation During Workplace-Based Learning in Male-Dominated Work
Abstract: Purpose: This article investigates female vocational students' strategies for becoming part of a workplace community, what these strategies are and how they are tied to the formation of vocational identities within male-dominated industrial work. Of particular interest is how female students enrolled on Swedish upper secondary industrial programmes experience workplace-based learning at industrial workplaces as part of their vocational education. The theoretical framework derives from Wenger's concept of community of practice, but his theoretical concept does not explicitly include gender dimensions. Therefore, the concept of community of practice is also combined with Paechter's assumption of gender, whereby femininity and masculinity can be considered as different communities of practice. Methods: The article draws on evidence from a Swedish study based on interviews with 20 female students enrolled on the industrial programme at six upper secondary schools. In this vocational pr
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: International journal for research in vocational education and training ; 8 (2021) 3 ; 334-354
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Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen
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Veröffentlichung
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Mannheim
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SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
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2021
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Ferm, Lisa
Gustavsson, Maria
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10.13152/IJRVET.8.3.4
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022101813063063056763
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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- Ferm, Lisa
- Gustavsson, Maria
- SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
Time of origin
- 2021
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