Vocational trainers in Switzerland – the invisible socialisation agents

Coverbild: BWP 3/2018
Author
Issue/Year (Volume) 3/2018 (47)
Page(s) 8-11
Language(s)
    englisch

Although companies have a key role to play in the dual system of vocational education training in Switzerland, they rarely tend to be the subject of research. This applies in particular to those who have a significant influence on the training model: the company-based vocational trainers. A study at the Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training has therefore taken this group on which very little research has been done to date, examined their characteristics and everyday working life, and identified their key role in vocational socialisation.