The learning and motivational potential of work tasks as quality attributes of work-place-based learning

Coverbild: BWP 1/2015
Author
Issue/Year (Volume) 1/2015 (44)
Page(s) 10-13
Language(s)
    englisch

As a learning venue, the workplace offers diverse learning opportunities which consciously or unconsciously influence not only vocational competences in the narrow sense but also, over time, broad aspects of personality. However, not all workplaces are conducive to learning per se. For work-based initial vocational training, the quality of the assigned work tasks plays a critical role in addition to the direct instruction given. The article pursues the question of which attributes make an assigned work task more or less conducive to learning.