Heterogeneous educational biographies and vocational orientation processesof young people at the vocational college

• Applicant: Professorin Dr. Sina-Mareen Köhler
• Subject Area: Education Systems and Educational Institutions
• Term: from 2013 to 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 236936978

The project follows a qualitative approach and focuses the vocational orientation processes of adolescents who attend a general education qualification path of a vocational college. These programs are intended not only to address work-related content and activities, but they enable the extension of the reached graduation. The project deals with the question of how young people experience this parallelization of general and vocational education and its use for the orientation process. Using the reconstruction of narrative biographical interviews, the relevance of vocational colleges compared to other socialization areas such as family, peers and leisure should be analyzed. A longitudinal part of the study also aims to examine the development of work attitudes and future plans. The project is contributing at the intersection of youth research, vocational education research and school research. Valuable information for the differentiation and optimization of general and vocational education programs of the transition system are expected because of the contrasting data.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants