Towards Integration of Work and Learning Strategies for Connectivity

This book examines learning taking place on the interface between education and working life at three levels: the individual learning processes; the organisational learning processes in educational institutions and work organisations; and the education sy

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Marja-Leena Stenstr¨om · P¨aivi Tynj¨al¨a Editors

Towards Integration of Work and Learning Strategies for Connectivity and Transformation

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Editors Prof. Marja-Leena Stenstr¨om University of Jyv¨askyl¨a Institute for Educational Research FI-40014 Jyv¨askyl¨a Finland [email protected]

ISBN: 978-1-4020-8961-9

Prof. P¨aivi Tynj¨al¨a University of Jyv¨askyl¨a Institute for Educational Research FI-40014 Jyv¨askyl¨a Finland

e-ISBN: 978-1-4020-8962-6

Library of Congress Control Number: 2008933666 c Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009  No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 springer.com

Acknowledgements

Most of the chapters of this book are based on the research project Integration of Work and Learning: Strategies for Connectivity and Transformation, funded by the Academy of Finland (Project number 205922; see http://www.peda.net/veraja/ worklearn). The study described in Chapter 13 was partly funded by the EU Leonardo da Vinci programme (Leonardo da Vinci project QUAL-PRAXIS). Furthermore, the Finnish Ministry of Education financed part of the study reported in Chapter 12, whereas Chapter 6 is based on a study which was partly financed by the Aker Yards Ship Industry School in Turku and contributed by the Turku employment office. Furthermore, we wish to warmly thank Ms. M.A. Leila Leino for her good technical assistance in editing of the book and Mr. Michael Freeman, lecturer in the Department of Languages at the University of Jyv¨askyl¨a, for his professional language checking. We also wish to thank our international partners who contributed to the volume and anonymous reviewers who gave us valuable feedback and suggestions to improve the work. Marja-Leena Stenstr¨om and P¨aivi Tynj¨al¨a

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Contents

Part I Theoretical Perspectives: New Paradigms of Work and Learning 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marja-Leena Stenstr¨om and P¨aivi Tynj¨al¨a

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2 Connectivity and Transformation in Work-Related Learning – Theoretical Foundations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 P¨aivi Tynj¨al¨a 3 Being, Doing, Making – A Paradigm for the Connective Curriculum 39 Matti Vesa Volanen Part II Integrating Work and Learning in Individual Experiences 4 Connecting Work and Learning in Industrial Design and Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Kaija Collin 5 Work Integration in Social Enterprises: Employment for the Sake of Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .