TY - JOUR AU - Alvunger, Daniel AU - Adolfsson, Carl-Henrik PY - 2016/02/19 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Introducing a critical dialogical model for vocational teacher education JF - Nordic Journal of Vocational Education and Training JA - NJVET VL - 6 IS - 1 SE - Peer-reviewed research articles DO - 10.3384/njvet.2242-458X.166153 UR - https://njvet.ep.liu.se/article/view/3214 SP - 53-75 AB - <p>The purpose with this article is to conceptualise and present what is referred to as a critical dialogical model for vocational teacher education that takes into account the interaction between theory/research and practice/experiential knowledge. The theoretical framework for the model is based on critical hermeneutics and the methodology of dialogue seminars with the aim to promote the development of a ‘critical self’ among the vocational teacher students. The model enacts an interface between theory and practice where a number of processes are identified: a reflective-analogical process, a critical-analytical process and an interactive critical self-building process. In order to include a theoretical argument concerning the issue of content, the concept of ‘learning capital’ and its four sub-categories in terms of curricular capital, instructional capital, moral capital and venture capital is used. We point at content-related aspects of student learning and how a critical self has the potential to promote various kinds of ‘capital’ and capacity building that may be of importance in the future work-life of the vocational teacher student.</p> ER -