SHAPING OF INTEGRATIVE WORKING AND LEARNING TASKS: THE CASE OF CAR MECHANICS Written by Boris Klančnik, Miran Papež & Pekka Kämäräinen

The first section characterises the basic measures to develop integrative working and learning tasks. The selected example (teaching pneumatics in the context of car repair work) has been used as a case for analysing how different learning – school, training workshop and enterprise – can be linked to each other. In this context it is worthwhile that the analyses have been used to produce a local educational video to support integrated learning processes and related pedagogies.

The SCV sought to demonstrate integrative working and learning tasks with a characteristic case. The case should highlight the continuity between school-based, workshop-related and workplace-based learning. In this respect the SCV chose to focus on the example of

1. School-based learning on the theme ‘pneumatics’,
2. Mentoring of work-related learning with the theme ‘changing the tires’ and
3. Performance of real work tasks by the trainees in the presence of clients.

The specific point of the SCV team was to involve all parties (teachers, trainers and trainees) in the analysis of the working and learning tasks. The aim was to make transparent the connectivity between different learning elements. From this perspective the SCV team decided to produce an educational video. The video shots focus on the complementary relations between the three learning venues (school, training workshop and real work situation) and the related learning experiences.

The above discussed case was deliberately chosen as a very basic example of integrative working and learning tasks. It is also relate to the very beginning phase of initial VET. With this case the SCV team seeks to prepare the ground for similar analyses and uses of multimedia on the context of more complex cases and in more advanced stages of learning. Regarding the use of multimedia resources, the video raises the question how to make such material usable for teaching-learning purposes and for the education of vocational teachers and trainers.