{"id":38545,"date":"2026-02-09T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=38545"},"modified":"2026-01-15T11:48:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:48:03","slug":"pre-vocational-training-for-refugees-in-switzerland-characteristics-of-workplace-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=38545","title":{"rendered":"Pre-vocational training for refugees in Switzerland: Characteristics of workplace learning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8cf370e7 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Author(s): Laurence Fedrigo, Marlise Kammermann, Alexandra Felder, Isabelle Caprani<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3384\/njvet.2242-458X.2515455\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3384\/njvet.2242-458X.2515455<\/a> <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Our explorative study focused on the analysis of workplace learning in Swiss companies offering a one-year pre-vocational programme (PAI) to young persons with a refugee background. We included three companies in the plumbing, commercial, and horticultural sectors, interviewing an in-company trainer and a former PAI apprentice from the same company in each sector. Drawing on a model of the quality of learning environments in a workplace setting (Filliettaz, 2012; Fuller &amp; Unwin, 2003), we investigated how trainers and PAI apprentices perceived affordances, that is, social and structural resources provided in the workplace, and PAI apprentices\u2019 commitment, referring to their individual prerequisites to make use of these affordances. Our results emphasise the importance of an expansive workplace learning environment that enables PAI apprentices\u2019 progressive involvement in professional tasks, and the crucial role of trainers\u2019 and co-workers\u2019 guidance and support. Our results also showed that PAI apprentices were interested, motivated, and took initiative in the workplace, though their full involvement was undermined by their often-difficult life circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Keywords:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>refugees, pre-vocational training, workplace learning, vocational education and training, Switzerland<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s): Laurence Fedrigo, Marlise Kammermann, Alexandra Felder, Isabelle Caprani Source:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[306,7,176,232,9,103,91,371,616,118],"class_list":["post-38545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-306","tag-article","tag-economic-integration","tag-education","tag-english-language","tag-refugees","tag-social-integration","tag-vocational-training","tag-workplace","tag-youth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38546,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38545\/revisions\/38546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}