Antje Barabasch

• Ph.D. Educational Policy Studies
• Head of Research Area at Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training (SFUVET)

In Germany and Denmark, the systems of further education and career guidance are well developed, offering a wide range of services and learning opportunities for targeted, specific and also general skills development. Based on an empirical study with mid-career individuals in both countries, the article investigates how the different systems suppor...

Increasing instability, particularly in European countries grappling with major socioeconomic consequences of the recent economic crisis, characterises modern labour markets. The paradigm of lifelong employment with a single employer is no longer credible and increasingly individuals face significant challenges in managing their career transitions...

Southern European countries, like Italy and Spain, have been severely affected by the recent economic crisis. This has affected their labour market in terms of increased unemployment, while many of those in employment feel more insecure. As a consequence, many individuals turn to education as a step to making a career change. The opportunities and...

Zusammenfassung Um mittelfristig vielen Lernenden eine duale Ausbildung anbieten zu können und Lernende gleichzeitig möglichst vielseitig auf ihr Berufsleben vorzubereiten, braucht es eine Flexibilisierung in der berufspraktischen Berufsausbildung und eine Förderung von Mobilität und Mobilitätbereitschaft bei den Lernenden. Dieser Beitrag widmet si...

Der Alltag von Jugendlichen, die nach der obligatorischen Schule eine Berufslehre beginnen, ändert sich schlagartig. Eine Vertrauenskultur am Arbeitsplatz kann ihnen im neuen Umfeld Sicherheit vermitteln und sich positiv auf ihre Entwicklung auswirken. Eine Fallstudie bei Swisscom zeigt das auf.

Creativity is one of the most important skills in the 21st century student’s toolkit and important to vocational education and training (VET). In the context of vocational teacher education, creativity has not yet played a significant role at universities. This is due in part to the fact that it is unclear what creativity means and how it is foster...

This study’s goal was to explore how new learning cultures might capture the many new needs of the retail industry sector and how apprentices can be trained for future work. Due to the inductive nature of this study, we found a rather implicit but important role of vocational education and training in retail that promotes the social advancement of...

Una cultura di apprendimento che fa crescere consapevol-mente le persone in formazione nel loro lavoro e promuo-ve le potenzialità a livello individuale: con questa combi-nazione le aziende farmaceutiche gettano le basi per lo sviluppo continuo di persone in formazione talentuose. La promozione delle persone dotate e dei talenti nelle professioni f...

Eine Lernkultur, die Lernende bewusst an ihrer Arbeit wachsen lässt und Potenziale individuell fördert: Mit dieser Kombination legen Pharmafirmen den Grundstein dafür, dass sich talentierte Lernende weiterentwickeln können. Ziel der Begabten-und Talentförderung in den Laborbe-rufen ist es, dem Fachkräftemangel und dem Tertiarisie-rungsdruck entgege...

26 26 skilled 2/22 Parcours professionnels 26 Encouragement des talents dans le secteur pharma Je ne l'ai encore jamais fait, ça devrait donc bien se passer » Par Gaby Walker et Antje Barabasch Une culture d'apprentissage pour une progression clair-voyante et un encouragement individuel des potentiels : c'est avec cette combinaison que les entrepri...

Technological, social, and economic changes challenge workers’ resilience at many levels. Innovative learning cultures have the potential to accommodate industry’s skills expectations with workers need for new forms of workplace learning. This study explores the role of learning cultures as (1) moderators between stability and change, (2) indicator...

In vocational education and training, coaching can be used to support apprentices’ ability to manage their own (further) competence development ‘on the job’. This is largely requested among employees at workplaces in internationally competitive sectors of the economy which require of their workforce a great deal of flexibility and learning ability....

This study understands workplace learning as a social phenomenon and explores ways of how to successfully respond to industrial transformation out of a role-related perspective. The focus is on interactions of social actors in the process of structural change and economic adaptation. The goal of this inductive case study is to explore how 26 actors...

We investigated whether creativity is associated with higher well-being and more positive COVID-19 experience. Participants (N = 252) filled out a creativity measure during the COVID-19 pandemic, they rated their satisfaction with life, positive affect and stress experienced in the last month, and indicated the extent to which they perceived COVID-...

In Teams mit ihresgleichen können Lernende früh Ver-antwortung übernehmen. Diese motivierende Lernform ermöglicht ihnen, sowohl an ihren fachlichen als auch an ihren transversalen Kompetenzen zu arbeiten. Oft be-gleiten Berufsbildende die Lernenden in diesem Prozess als Coaches.

Les équipes d'apprenties et d'apprentis Travailler en commun est motivant Par Anna Keller et Antje Barabasch En travaillant en équipe avec leurs pairs, les personnes en formation peuvent assumer très tôt des responsabilités. Cette forme d'apprentissage motivante leur permet de travailler sur leurs compétences à la fois professionnelles et transvers...

Apprendiste e apprendisti imparano in team ad assumere presto responsabilità. Questa motivante forma di appren-dimento permette loro di lavorare su competenze sia pro-fessionali sia trasversali. In questo processo, formatori e formatrici professionali affiancano spesso le persone in formazione in veste di coach. Apprendiste e apprendisti gestiscono...

Visionen und eine zukunftsorientierte Haltung sind in praktisch allen Branchen und Unternehmen gefragt, denn die technischen und gesellschaftlichen Veränderun-gen sind gross. Das wirkt sich auch auf die betriebliche Berufsbildung aus. Wer auf eine neue Lernkultur setzt, fördert den Erfolg der Lernenden. Wie durch angepass-te, flexible Lernkulturen...

Les visions d'avenir et une orientation vers l'avenir sont demandées dans presque tous les secteurs d'activité et les entreprises face à l'ampleur de l'évolution technique et sociale. Cela se répercute aussi sur la formation profes-sionnelle en entreprise. En misant sur une nouvelle culture d'apprentissage, on favorise la réussite des personnes en...

Alla luce dei notevoli cambiamenti tecnici e sociali, prati-camente tutti i settori e le aziende richiedono oggi un ap-proccio visionario e orientato al futuro. Questa realtà in-cide anche sulla formazione professionale aziendale. Chi punta su una nuova cultura dell'apprendimento incentiva la riuscita delle persone in formazione. Un ampio studio de...

Today, creativity is considered a success factor in many occupational fields and a core competence of the 21st century. In vocational education and training (VET), creativity is defined as problem-solving ability and ascribed to the transversal competences. Creativity is always context-dependent in terms of the work environment and specific demands...

The article contributes to the understanding of educational policy transfer with a particular focus on VET and labour-market related training. A review of VET policy transfer literature is followed by a description of travelling VET reforms in adult and vocational education and training around the globe. Historical foundations of VET policy transfe...

Beitrag präsentiert an der EHB Alumni Veranstaltung, Bern, Schweiz.

Paper presented at the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), Gothenburg, Sweden. (online)

Invited lecture at International Alumni Seminar "Innovative VET for companies and society", Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Beitrag präsentiert an der Sektionstagung der Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik (BWP), Bamberg, Deutschland.

Paper presented at the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), Göteborg, Sweden. (online)

Keynote an der NewSkills Tagung des Eidgenössischen Hochschulinstituts für Berufsbildung, Bern, Schweiz.

Beitrag präsentiert beim Workshop zur Delphi Studie «Gelingensfaktoren in der Berufsausbildung». Hochschule der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (HdBA), Mannheim, Deutschland.

Paper presented at the 4th Crossing Boundaries Conference in Vocational Education and Training, Muttenz and Bern. (Online)

Paper presented at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Geneva, Switzerland. (online)

Paper presented at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Geneva, Switzerland. (online)

Paper presented at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Geneva, Switzerland. (online)

Paper presented at the 4th Crossing Boundaries Conference in Vocational Education and Training, Muttenz and Bern. (Online)

Paper presented at the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Berufbildungsforschungsnetz (AGBFN) Tagung, Nürnberg, Deutschland. (Online)

Paper presented at the Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association (AVETRA) Conference, Melbourne, Australia. (online)

Poster presented at the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), Göteborg, Sweden. (online)

Beitrag präsentiert an der 7. Österreichischen Berufsbildungsforschungskonferenz (BBFK), Klagenfurt, Österreich. (online)

Beitrag präsentiert an der 7. Österreichischen Berufsbildungsforschungskonferenz (BBFK), Klagenfurt, Österreich. (online)

Paper presented at the Comparative & International Education Society (CIES) Conference, Seattle, United States of America. (Online)