Article 2012

Perspectives of new trades tutors: Boundary crossing between vocational identities

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Chan, Selena
Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education
Journal · Vol. 40 · Issue 4 · pp. 409-421
Abstract

This article reports on a study of the perspectives of new tutors teaching traditional vocational trades who recently commenced teaching in the Institutes of Technologies and Polytechnics (ITPs) sector in New Zealand. The perspectives are collated from questionnaires and interviews of 13 tutors, from five ITPs, who have been teaching full-time for two years. In this article, a focus is made on the transformation process from expert trade worker to effective trades tutor, along with suggestions to assist the 'boundary crossing' process between two diverse vocational identities. Suggestions include aligning trades tutors' existing workplace training-based conceptualisations of teaching and learning to extend trades tutors' teaching craft knowledge, skills, and dispositions. © 2012 Copyright 2012 Australian Teacher Education Association.

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Vocational education vocational identity new teacher induction

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Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, Christchurch, New Zealand
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