Unit:
Faculty of Educational StudiesLibrary of the School of Philosophy
Dissertation committee:
Σμυρναίου Ζαχαρούλα, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια, Παιδαγωγικό Τμήμα Δευτεροβάθμιας Εκπαίδευσης, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών (Επόπτρια).
Κυνηγός Πολυχρόνης, Καθηγητής, Παιδαγωγικό Τμήμα Δευτεροβάθμιας Εκπαίδευσης, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών (Μέλος Τριμελούς Συμβουλευτικής Επιτροπής).
Παπακωνσταντίνου Γεώργιος, Ομότιμος Καθηγητής, Παιδαγωγικό Τμήμα Δευτεροβάθμιας Εκπαίδευσης, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών (Μέλος Τριμελούς Συμβουλευτικής Επιτροπής).
Αργυροπούλου Αικατερίνη, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια, Παιδαγωγικό Τμήμα Δευτεροβάθμιας Εκπαίδευσης, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών.
Ψυχάρης Γεώργιος, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Μαθηματικών, Σχολή Θετικών Επιστημών, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών.
Πόταρη Δέσποινα, Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Μαθηματικών, Σχολή Θετικών Επιστημών, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών.
Τριανταφύλλου Χρυσαυγή, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Μαθηματικών, Σχολή Θετικών Επιστημών, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών.
Original Title:
Σύνδεση Γενικής Δευτεροβάθμιας Εκπαίδευσης και Χώρων Εργασίας: Μεθοδολογική Προσέγγιση για την Ενσωμάτωση της Επαγγελματικής Ετοιμότητας – Μελέτη Περίπτωσης για τις Θετικές Επιστήμες
Translated title:
The Connection between General Secondary Education and Workplaces: A Methodological Approach for Integrating Career Readiness – Case Study in Sciences
Summary:
The development of career readiness is a key component for the smooth and safe transition of adolescents from Secondary Education to assuming roles and responsibilities as the future workforce provided that: i) adolescents have developed the knowledge and skills required by the labor market and ii) they can access the possibilities offered in their future professional fields of work.
This doctoral thesis examines: a) knowledge and skills, which are necessary for graduates of Secondary Education for their future employment, b) methodologies that teachers integrate into the Science Curricula for the development of the required knowledge and skills of the workforce, c) strategies that contribute to the connection and creation of cooperative relationships with workplaces, so that students receive valid and up-to-date information on the labor market.
Examining these parameters, as it emerges from the literature review, is important, as the required skills of workplaces differ at a regional level and there is variability in the degree of their integration into the Study Programs at a global level and a lack of uniform guidelines of methodological approaches. Case studies of corporate and collaborative work-based learning activities do not focus on identifying specific knowledge and skills developed through student engagement although they do provide long-term employability data. Especially for the Greek education system: i) an oversupply of graduates with general knowledge, a lack of graduates with knowledge and skills needed by the labor market and from the point of view of employers, a significant skills mismatch problem is recorded, ii) no opportunities are provided to develop interaction relationships with workplaces, as emphasis is placed on covering the curriculum objectives of the detailed curriculum, which is directly linked to success in the written exams and entrance exams to Tertiary Education, iii) young people declare insufficient preparation for the labor market, due to a lack of learning opportunities, iv) there is a much lower percentage of participation in alternating education and training, where students practice in the workplace, than in General Secondary Education.
Through a multi-phase design based on the mixed methodological approach with a particular focus on participatory observation, what emerged as required skills for the workplaces were critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, organization and information analysis. The process of producing products and/or services was transferred as knowledge to the teaching practice of creative research tasks in mathematics through the phases of Design Thinking, where the required skills were integrated. The strategies needed to connect education and workplaces are job shadowing, as well as input from the experts themselves.
The results of the doctoral study suggest the existence of interaction between workplaces and education, indicating the need for a holistic ecosystem approach to the development of career readiness.
Main subject category:
Science
Keywords:
Education policy, Career readiness, General Secondary Education, Workplaces, Skills, STEM, Mathematics, Participatory observation, Design thinking, Work-based learning, Community-based learning
Number of references:
625
