Accompanying and controlling students in dual vocational training
It is not rare for a trainer in a dual work-linked vocational training course to suggest students reflexive practice during their studies in order to improve learning and professionalization. It is usually done either by a teacher of the training course, or/and by trainer-practitioner, who are also teaching the contents, certifying and evaluating competencies, accompanying students in their analysis and their practical work. Those different roles played by different trainers could be in tension. If imagining them in parallel in course design and trainers workload is possible, what are the students experiencing in this dual training? This is the research question of a case study, analysis of a difficult accompanying situation, that we researched with strategic and systemic analysis (Crozier & Friedberg, 1977). This research reveals the possible questions for creators of dual vocational courses and for participants about the aims of the dual training, the functions and the object of evaluations, the roles of participants and the ways of recruiting the trainers.