Abstract
ABSTRACTNew kinds of jobs require managing new kinds of work life competences and a number of such key competences for lifelong learning which equip young people for further learning and employability in a knowledge society have already been identified. Research has however indicated that formal education is not providing adequate support and opportunities for acquiring the needed competencies in practice. More discussion and empirical research is needed about knowledge work competences and related practices in secondary schools, higher education and in the work life. The theme of this special Issue is ‘Knowledge work: educational practices preparing students for work life’ and it has as its aim to contribute to a discussion on how changes in professional work can be taken into account in educational settings. Of particular interest in this special issue is how educational theory about ‘knowledge-creation’ is applied in practice. The trialogical approach to learning highlights collaborative knowledge creation and the development of shared, mediating objects. This theory and its associated design principles are introduced. The contributions of this special issue relate to implementing ideas of the trialogical approach to learning in various ways and each contribution is briefly presented.
Highlights
Klas Karlgren a,b, Sami Paavola c and Maria Beatrice Ligorio d aDepartment of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; bDepartment of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; cFaculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; dDepartment of Educational Sciences, Psychology and Communication, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari BA, Italy ABSTRACTNew kinds of jobs require managing new kinds of work life competences and a number of such key competences for lifelong learning which equip young people for further learning and employability in a knowledge society have already been identified
More discussion and empirical research is needed about the knowledge work competences and related practices in secondary schools, higher education and in the work life
The trialogical approach to learning has been presented in a series of papers and book chapters promoting the kind of learning which involves collaborative knowledge creation and which often relies on the development of shared, mediating objects (Paavola, Lipponen, and Hakkarainen 2004; Paavola and Hakkarainen 2005; Paavola, Engeström, and Hakkarainen 2012)
Summary
Klas Karlgren a,b, Sami Paavola c and Maria Beatrice Ligorio d aDepartment of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; bDepartment of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; cFaculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; dDepartment of Educational Sciences, Psychology and Communication, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari BA, Italy ABSTRACTNew kinds of jobs require managing new kinds of work life competences and a number of such key competences for lifelong learning which equip young people for further learning and employability in a knowledge society have already been identified. More discussion and empirical research is needed about the knowledge work competences and related practices in secondary schools, higher education and in the work life.
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