| Title |
The 'profession/occupation field model' as an activity theoretical framework for the development of engineers in the context of the Smart City approach |
| ID_Doc |
39167 |
| Authors |
Essl, G |
| Title |
The 'profession/occupation field model' as an activity theoretical framework for the development of engineers in the context of the Smart City approach |
| Year |
2015 |
| Published |
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| DOI |
10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.08.103 |
| Abstract |
The planning and control of a job and career development related to trainees and young technicians is indicated by three features at least: It is complex in the social context, dynamic with regard to the time and contradictory for the different topics. The proactive diagnosis of occupational developments has to meet these three challenges although the foresighted consultation and support of technicians are not trivial. The following research question can therefore be formulated: How can the professional field of technicians be investigated so that an adequate instrument can be designed for their job and career development? In this contribution the design of a, occupation (profession) field model' is introduced. The author suggests a system-integrated point of view which has the concept "occupation/profession field" used both analytically and classifying. Three function modes being connected with each other are conceived on the basis of an activity theoretical approach. The target audience of these skills for the balanced assessment and consultation of developments in technical occupation fields embraces at least three relevant groups of people: (1) Vocational teachers should be able to represent technical work processes embedded in organizational, social and institutional conditions. Through this they can let future occupational profiles flow into their didactic long-term objectives. (2) The trainees themselves should be able to adapt their professional ideas to the complex and dynamic requirements of the globalization. Through these they become neither passive nor naive professional addressees since they also install contradictions meaning-orientedly in possible future scenarios. (3) The education/training management opens its perception and gates for junctions to thick institutional and social system partners to be able to guarantee the education of their trainees in different system contexts. The presented model is explained at the example of the Smart City approach which helps for the worldwide putting through of an ecologically and economically acceptable lifestyle in the metropolises of the 21st century. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. |
| Author Keywords |
activity theory; artefact; contradiction; education/training management; engineer; job and career development; mode of meaning; mode of sense of meaning; occupation field model; profession; Smart City approach; smart energy; smart grids; smart mobility; sustainability; technology; value; work activity |
| Index Keywords |
Index Keywords |
| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH) |
| EID |
WOS:000380395700001 |
| WoS Category |
Education & Educational Research; Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary |
| Research Area |
Education & Educational Research; Social Sciences - Other Topics |
| PDF |
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.08.103
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