Category: Language in vocational education

Language in vocational education

Profession and Language

The German publisher Franz Steiner Verlag has just published a supplement to its Journal of Vocational and Business Education titled “Profession and Language – Requirements, Competences and Promotion”.

Fact sheet (German)

Sample chapter (German)

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Handbook “Language in Education”

Jörg Kilian, Birgit Brouer und Dina Lüttenberg have published a Handbook on Language in Education in a German publication series called Handbooks on Linguistic Knowledge, to which I contributed with my article “The Linguistic Construcion of Socially Relevant Knowledge for Vocational Education Illustrated by Selected Examples (Sprachliche Konstruktion gesellschaftlich relevanten Wissens für die berufliche Bildung an ausgewählten Beispielen)”.

Doctorate Katharina Baumann

You should be able to cope with writing – at least a bit!
A study on the writing skills of trainees in the lower vocational training segment seen in the context of training maturity.

Katharina Baumann demonstrates excellent writing skills. Under the German title „Man muss schon ein bisschen mit dem Schreiben zurechtkommen! – Eine Studie zu den Schreibfähigkeiten von Auszubildenden im unteren beruflichen Ausbildungssegment im Kontext von Ausbildungsreife“, she has completed her doctorate with great success.