- Title
- Views of VET teachers, managers and students about VET teacher qualifications
- Creator
- Smith, Erica; Yasukawa, Keiko
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Text; Conference proceedings
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/180811
- Identifier
- vital:15843
- Identifier
- https://vital.voced.edu.au/vital/access/services/Download/ngv:73273/SOURCE202
- Identifier
- ISBN:978-0-9805275-3-7
- Abstract
- This paper reports on some initial research into what students, teachers and managers in training providers think about qualifications for vocational education and training (VET) teachers and trainers. In 2011, a Productivity Commission research report on the VET workforce identified 'some clear deficiencies [that] should be addressed', but rejected a change to required qualifications because of lack of research evidence, at that time, that higher-level qualifications would make a difference. This paper reports on preliminary observations from a major Australian Research Council funded project that set out to investigate this matter. The project has several stages, and this paper, by two of the projects' four researchers, examines early data from four of eight case studies. The case study sites were based in two states and comprised two TAFE institutes, a not-for-profit college, and a for-profit private VET provider. In the case studies, senior managers, teachers and trainers in different discipline areas, and learners, were interviewed to elicit their views on whether or how teachers' pedagogical and industry qualifications mattered in the quality of teaching and in teachers' contributions to the institution. The paper explains the different participants' views and the reasons they gave for their views. The project as a whole includes several other data sources.
- Publisher
- AVETRA
- Relation
- Putting VET Research To Work, AVETRA conference; Sydney; 2016
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright unknown
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- Perception; Teacher training; Practitioners; Vocational teachers; Case study
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