Between school and work: New perspectives on transfer and boundary-crossing

This volume presents the research outcomes of Working Group 2 of Cost Action A11, 'Flexibility, transferability, mobility as targets of vocational education and training'. The group focused on the issue of transfer of learning in vocational education and training and the development of new conceptual tools for the promotion of transformative learning. The book presents an overview of different theoretical approaches to transfer of knowledge and skill, including recent attempts at reconceptualisation. The emphasis is on a perception of learning as boundary crossing between contexts. It is argued that this process is not just the transfer of intact knowledge and skills from task to task or from the school to the…