Vocational Education in the Occupational Field of Textile Technology

 

Content

Contents of the seminar "Vocational education in the occupational field of textile technology" are as follows:

• Clarification of the subject matter of a teaching methodology of industrial-technical vocational specialization in textile technology.
• Job descriptions of industrial and textile-technical professions; references to Prof. Gries’s lecture "Textile Technology" are shown. Based on the analyzed textile-technical process chains (e.g. for the production of a pair of jeans), the division of labor and skilled labor in the occupational field of textile technology are discussed and described.
• Innovations in the occupational field of textile technology.
• Technical, work organizational and qualification requirements in the occupational field of textile technology.
• Institutions of vocational education in the occupational field of textile technology (chambers, guilds, social partners, associations, ministries, (independent) educational institutions, schools, etc.).
• Current discussions on objectives and contents in the vocational field of textile technology (concept of competence, concepts of professional competence, German Qualification Framework, European Qualification Framework).
• The means of order and their curricular approaches in the vocational field of textile technology (design principles of vocational curricula, learning area-oriented curricula).

Objective

The aim of the seminar "Vocational education in the occupational field of textile technology" is to be able to connect the specialized expertise acquired at the university with educational inroads of vocational education and training and to recognize where the knowledge of vocational education differs fundamentally from the approach science takes. For this purpose, it is necessary to build up a reflective meta-knowledge of work and occupation in the occupational field of textile technology, which includes familiarity with technical, work-organizational and professional developments of skilled workers with the corresponding historical backgrounds. The acquired meta-knowledge is evaluated and reflected in all courses as to the significance of what the teachers at vocational colleges do and what their design possibilities are.

In the seminar, students...

• reflect on the development of textile technology professions.
• get to know the tasks of different institutions for the education and training of textile-technical professions.
• get to know the development and structure of classification tools in the occupational field of textile technology.
• reflect on current developments, innovations and problems in the occupational field of textile technology.
• become acquainted with current studies of qualification research in the occupational field of textile technology.
• learn about job profiles in the occupational field of textile technology and can describe the division of labor of these.

Teaching and Learning Method

The aim of the seminar is to get to know the current challenges of a teacher at a vocational college, to analyze these challenges against the background of theories in order to be able to work out possible solutions for the future profession.
For this purpose, the students are provided digitally with teaching materials on theoretical references on the one hand and on the other hand on concrete challenges to be dealt with at the vocational college prior to the events. The aim of the attendance dates is to work on practical challenges with the help of theoretical approaches in critical discourse in the learning group in order to promote an active knowledge construction of the students.

The examination itself takes the form of a presentation based on a written paper and is an integral part of the seminar. Here, the students have the opportunity to deal with a problem in depth and to engage in critical-constructive discourse with their fellow students.