Requirements of dual vocational training in a school-based setting – systematically integrate workplace experience!

The introduction of the “field of learning” concept in 1996 was tied to the aim of organising teaching in line with company business processes, and thus contributing to better links be-tween school-based and workplace-based learning. Yet even 20 years later, learning pro-cesses in the school and the workplace bear little relation to each other. Evidence of this emerges from an interview study which asked how the stakeholders involved ensure the linkage of school-based and workplace-based learning. The main results are presented in the article. On that basis, diversification of the field-of-learning concept is advocated, and exemplified with reference to the learning venues, the object of learning and the learning processes of German dual-system initial vocational training.