Haute Ecole pédagogique Fribourg

Learning in multiple contexts : are there intra-, cross- and transcontextual effects on the learner’s motivation and help seeking?

Gurtner, Jean-Luc ; Gulfi, Alida ; Genoud, Philippe A. ; Rocha Trindade, Bernardo de ; Schumacher, Jérôme Albert

In: European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2012, vol. 27, no. 2, p. 213-225

In Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the majority of 15–19-year olds follow vocational education programmes within a dual-track system, spending most of their time in a company and going to school only 1 day each week. With their separate aims, content and sociological organisation, the company and the school can be considered as two distinct contexts within which apprentices have to...